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... human text . His schooling was of the scantiest . At some time or another every man must become his own schoolmaster if he seeks education . Abraham Lincoln began at once , and continued direct- ing his own studies all the days of his ...
... human text . His schooling was of the scantiest . At some time or another every man must become his own schoolmaster if he seeks education . Abraham Lincoln began at once , and continued direct- ing his own studies all the days of his ...
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... human interests whatever . Shortly , the notion is this . I believe that a lost golf ball , by which I mean " lost " within the meaning of the code of law of the Royal and Ancient , and abandoned by the Dominus of the ball , who gives ...
... human interests whatever . Shortly , the notion is this . I believe that a lost golf ball , by which I mean " lost " within the meaning of the code of law of the Royal and Ancient , and abandoned by the Dominus of the ball , who gives ...
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... human peace of mind . At the present stage of civilisation it would be premature to suggest that litiga- tion could be abolished altogether , but the bulk of it is unnecessary and harmful and could easily be dispensed with . In the ...
... human peace of mind . At the present stage of civilisation it would be premature to suggest that litiga- tion could be abolished altogether , but the bulk of it is unnecessary and harmful and could easily be dispensed with . In the ...
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... results in money economy and human reconciliation is beyond doubt . Heber Smith tells us that in Norway 75 per cent and in Denmark 90 per cent of all litigation is peaceably adjusted through judicial conciliation . 52 What the Judge ...
... results in money economy and human reconciliation is beyond doubt . Heber Smith tells us that in Norway 75 per cent and in Denmark 90 per cent of all litigation is peaceably adjusted through judicial conciliation . 52 What the Judge ...
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... human units and consider how much anxiety and worry has been saved to the thousands of human beings interested in these affairs . Not only is the saving of their money and time of value to the citizens and to the community of whom they ...
... human units and consider how much anxiety and worry has been saved to the thousands of human beings interested in these affairs . Not only is the saving of their money and time of value to the citizens and to the community of whom they ...
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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.
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.