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... What the Judge Thought - Page 19by Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1923 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1917 - 736 pages
...Even when they came to the conclusion that a client had a good case in law, they would not take.it up if the moral aspect of it was cloudy. The following...profession. ' Let no young man choosing the law for a yield to that popular belief that honesty is not compatible with its practice. If in your judgment... | |
| Law - 1906 - 396 pages
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| Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...right are not morally right. I shall not take your case, but will give you a little advice, for which I will charge you nothing. You seem to be a sprightly, energetic man. I would advise you to try your hand at making six hundred dollars in some other way." ' " In the summer... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...your case, but I will give you a little advice for nothing. You seem a sprightly, energetic man. I would advise you to try your hand at making six hundred dollars in some other way." He would have nothing to do with the "tricks" of the profession, though he met... | |
| William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...you a piece of advice without charge," added Lincoln. " You seem to be a sprightly, energetic man. I would advise you to try your hand at making six hundred dollars some other way." One afternoon an old coloured woman came into the office of Lincoln and Herndon * to tell her sad story.... | |
| Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 pages
...right are not morally right. I shall not take your case, but will give you a little advice, for which I will charge you nothing. You seem to be a sprightly, energetic man. I would advise you to try your hand at making 600 dollars in some other way.' Lincoln hated a purely... | |
| William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 276 pages
...must remember that somethings legally right are not morally right. We shall not take your case, but will give you a little advice for which we will charge...you to try your hand at making six hundred dollars in some other way.' " Yours, " LORD." From undated MS., about 1866. circuit he carried in one hand... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 544 pages
...take your case, but I will give a little advice for nothing. You seem a sprightly, energetic man. I would advise you to try your hand at making six hundred dollars in some other way." Sometimes, after he had entered upon a criminal case, the conviction that his client... | |
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