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... favour to such as have in- dustry and ability ; and , as the prizes that await the successful are magnificent , no class or rank disdains to compete for them . Nor can it be unimportant to the state to inform itself what are the ...
... favour to such as have in- dustry and ability ; and , as the prizes that await the successful are magnificent , no class or rank disdains to compete for them . Nor can it be unimportant to the state to inform itself what are the ...
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... favour the opinion which ascribes it to the historian . He says , " Critics have at length come to regard it as a genuine work of Tacitus . " - Lect . Hist . of Rome , ii . 154 . - CH . I. ] TESTIMONY OF ANTIQUITY . 7 aliunde 6 CO [ CH ...
... favour the opinion which ascribes it to the historian . He says , " Critics have at length come to regard it as a genuine work of Tacitus . " - Lect . Hist . of Rome , ii . 154 . - CH . I. ] TESTIMONY OF ANTIQUITY . 7 aliunde 6 CO [ CH ...
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... favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all . " Whereas for- merly the chief concern of the student was to prepare himself for the demands which he fondly hoped would soon be made upon his intellect and skill , he ...
... favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all . " Whereas for- merly the chief concern of the student was to prepare himself for the demands which he fondly hoped would soon be made upon his intellect and skill , he ...
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... favour the court had determined . Dio- dorus says that the Egyptians adopted this system from a conviction that it was most favourable to the adminis- tration of even - handed justice . Parties were thereby placed more upon a level ...
... favour the court had determined . Dio- dorus says that the Egyptians adopted this system from a conviction that it was most favourable to the adminis- tration of even - handed justice . Parties were thereby placed more upon a level ...
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... favour of the judges . His son Bdelycleon , who is much scandalised at his father's neglect of domestic affairs , determines to prevent him from getting out of the house ; and the scene of the play represents the door of his mansion ...
... favour of the judges . His son Bdelycleon , who is much scandalised at his father's neglect of domestic affairs , determines to prevent him from getting out of the house ; and the scene of the play represents the door of his mansion ...
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Page 441 - Lordships, which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate by the sacred duty which he owes his Client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world, that Client and none other. To save that Client by all expedient means, to protect that Client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction...
Page 359 - The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty.
Page 356 - I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it.