 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1829 - 392 pages
...67, 8, CO. It were, however, unfair to omit the praise allotted him by an enemy. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. To their disappointment,... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 610 pages
...Am. Jurist, 273. Shaftsbury, Earl of, (Lord Chancellor.) ' In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abcthilin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched lo redress ; Swift of despatch and easy of access, Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or...clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; 190 Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...says, '•' No enemy can grudge , The statesman vie abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access." July 27. —... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 650 pages
...praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean — Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O had he been... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 514 pages
...Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes, with hands more " clean ; " Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." (Malone.) When the King one day, either in jest, or out of pique, said to Lord Shaftesbury, " Thou... | |
 | John Bayley Sommers Carwithen - 1833 - 426 pages
...; AD The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. 1672' In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd,...to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 612 pages
...Jurist, 272. Stlect Cases in Chancery. See 8 Am. Jurist, 273. Shaftsbury, Earl of, (Lord Chancellor.) • In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more...clean, • Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swifl of despatch and easy of access, , Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtue! only... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...of the poem, he added the four following lines in praise of the earl's conduct as lord-chancellor. " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more...to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Shaftesbury, now thoroughly disgusted with political life, resolved to bid a final adieu to the scene... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, tha wretched to redress Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve ihe... | |
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In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve the crown, With -virtues only proper to the gown;... 
