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... Judge Hallett was appointed United States judge . Spanish then was the language of the Mexican greasers and of nearly everybody else . The judge early learned to despise Span- ish , and made a rule against its use in court . In Trinidad ...
... Judge Hallett was appointed United States judge . Spanish then was the language of the Mexican greasers and of nearly everybody else . The judge early learned to despise Span- ish , and made a rule against its use in court . In Trinidad ...
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... Judge , too , and a hard - working Judge , be- cause he does not sit simply as a judge in his court , but he also acts as a thirteenth juror in every case tried be fore him ( Applause ) — well , I have seen him stand at a public dinner ...
... Judge , too , and a hard - working Judge , be- cause he does not sit simply as a judge in his court , but he also acts as a thirteenth juror in every case tried be fore him ( Applause ) — well , I have seen him stand at a public dinner ...
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... Judge Moses Hampton , remarked that " Surely Moses must have been wandering in the wilderness when he made his decision , " and sent the case back to the lower court . Judge Hampton , on its second trial , took occasion to remark that ...
... Judge Moses Hampton , remarked that " Surely Moses must have been wandering in the wilderness when he made his decision , " and sent the case back to the lower court . Judge Hampton , on its second trial , took occasion to remark that ...
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... Judge Story is strikingly pre- sented in the following lines : " Stuff not your speech with every sort of law ; Give us the grain and throw away the straw . " " Who's a great lawyer ? He who aims to say The least his cause requires ...
... Judge Story is strikingly pre- sented in the following lines : " Stuff not your speech with every sort of law ; Give us the grain and throw away the straw . " " Who's a great lawyer ? He who aims to say The least his cause requires ...
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... judge was not very learned in technicalities , knew little Latin and less Greek . The jury were ordinary farm- After plaintiff's counsel had opened the case , Brown rose and spoke for two hours in a flowery , eloquent man- ner ...
... judge was not very learned in technicalities , knew little Latin and less Greek . The jury were ordinary farm- After plaintiff's counsel had opened the case , Brown rose and spoke for two hours in a flowery , eloquent man- ner ...
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Page 517 - We wish that this column rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude.
Page 302 - Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man.
Page 239 - ... of women, and the flushed faces of men ; and in those assemblages we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers. We lose sight of them no more. We are with them when they enlist in the great army of freedom. We see them part with those they love. Some are walking for the last time in quiet, woody places, with the maidens they adore. We hear the whisperings and the sweet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly part forever.
Page 495 - I am amazed at his Grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer, who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as...
Page iv - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Page 239 - The past rises before me like a dream. Again we are in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sounds of preparation — the music of boisterous drums — the silver voices of heroic bugles. We see thousands of assemblages, and hear the appeals of orators. We see the pale cheeks of women, and the flushed faces of men ; and in those assemblages we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers.
Page 308 - I pity them still more, if their vanity leads them to mistake the shouts of a mob for the trumpet of fame. Experience might inform them that many, who have been saluted with the huzzas of a crowd one day, have received their execrations the next ; and many, who by the popularity of their times, have been held up as spotless patriots, have, nevertheless, appeared upon the historian's page, when truth has triumphed over delusion, the assassins of liberty.
Page 451 - Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions of the gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So let us sleep, and give the Maker praise. I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, 'Served him right! — it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished,...
Page 303 - Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket? A moral tone ought to be infused into the profession which should drive such men out of it.
Page 450 - Yes; bless the man who first invented sleep (I really can't avoid the iteration), But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Risingl "Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed...