 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...fame deserved 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. Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swift of despatch and easy of access. Shaftesbury was... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1855 - 286 pages
...durIt were, however, unfair to omit the praiae allotted to him by an enemy : — In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean : ITnbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. 1 Compare James,... | |
 | Robert Richard Pearce - Admission to the bar - 1855 - 488 pages
...Orlando Bridgeman, he was appointed Lord Chancellor. Dryden says of him : — " 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." For his opposition... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.4 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. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1857 - 448 pages
...can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge ; In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abothdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the Crown, With virtues only proper... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...fame deserved 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, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | Archer Polson - Law - 1858 - 212 pages
...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 dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtue only proper to the gown !" If we may credit... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin* With morp discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper... | |
 | Portraits - 1859 - 112 pages
...Absalom and Achitophel,' is. familiar to every reader of English poetry : — " 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." His versatile... | |
 | North American review - 1860 - 634 pages
...fame deserved 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, Unbribed, unsought the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access." A much better authority... | |
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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;... 
