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... tion and Seward is the second man on the list . " Lincoln cut short his friends ' congratulations and pocketed the telegram , saying , " There is a little woman on Eighth Street who would like to hear about this . " When the ...
... tion and Seward is the second man on the list . " Lincoln cut short his friends ' congratulations and pocketed the telegram , saying , " There is a little woman on Eighth Street who would like to hear about this . " When the ...
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... tion of ready writers it may be well at least to set out the lines upon which scientific research should proceed . There are many kinds of law relating to the lost golf ball ; there is the law of dynamics by which it is or should be hit ...
... tion of ready writers it may be well at least to set out the lines upon which scientific research should proceed . There are many kinds of law relating to the lost golf ball ; there is the law of dynamics by which it is or should be hit ...
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... tion is all too large and intricate for one mind , and all I have attempted here is to note down the headings for future discussion . Whether the matter should be handed over to a Royal or Departmental Commission is for others to decide ...
... tion is all too large and intricate for one mind , and all I have attempted here is to note down the headings for future discussion . Whether the matter should be handed over to a Royal or Departmental Commission is for others to decide ...
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... tion could be abolished altogether , but the bulk of it is unnecessary and harmful and could easily be dispensed with . In the eighteenth century the doctors used to bleed all their patients , and lawyers to - day are inclined to pre ...
... tion could be abolished altogether , but the bulk of it is unnecessary and harmful and could easily be dispensed with . In the eighteenth century the doctors used to bleed all their patients , and lawyers to - day are inclined to pre ...
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... tion having disposed of 87 per cent of all matters to the satisfaction of both parties . Statistics are dull , unhandsome reading , but translate these figures into human units and consider how much anxiety and worry has been saved to ...
... tion having disposed of 87 per cent of all matters to the satisfaction of both parties . Statistics are dull , unhandsome reading , but translate these figures into human units and consider how much anxiety and worry has been saved to ...
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Page 256 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Page 77 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 211 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in Heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 19 - Herndon reports him as advising a client, "we can doubtless gain your case for you ; we can set a whole neighborhood at loggerheads ; we can distress a widowed mother and her six fatherless children, and thereby get for you six hundred dollars to which you seem to have a legal claim, but which rightfully belongs, it appears to me, as much to the woman and her children as it does to you. You must remember, however, that some things legally right are not morally right.
Page 154 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Page 114 - For Mr Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Page 127 - The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas!" "No; — I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.
Page 153 - Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
Page 88 - I can count them bone by bone, The leaves are open and spread But I see the teeth of the land, And hands like a dead man's hand, And the eyes of a dead man's head. There's nothing but cinders and sand, The rat and the mouse have...
Page 36 - Justice directed the jury, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not to be of the finest water, they should presume the strongest against him, and make the value of the best jewels the measure of their damages : which they accordingly did.