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" 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 19
by Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1923 - 282 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 42; Volume 115

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...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 68

Law - 1906 - 396 pages
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as ..., Volume 2

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...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 33

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...
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Lincoln, Stanton and Grant: Historical Sketches

Evan Rowland Jones - Presidents - 1875 - 398 pages
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The Pioneer Boy: And how He Became President, The Story of the Life of ...

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....
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Kings without crowns; or Lives of American presidents, with a sketch of the ...

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...
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Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life ... The History ..., Volume 2

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...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 1

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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