 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 336 pages
...cheap ; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence !" Nobody needs to be told that this conclusion must have been laboured in advance, because it is not... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - Bar associations - 1915 - 274 pages
...it a sealed book; left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich; left it the heritage of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." Our own Federal government needs the simplification of its procedure in just such a way as is proposed... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - 1882 - 514 pages
...; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the twoedged...reflecting on these things, it has always seemed a worthier honor to be the instrument of making you bestir yourselves in this high matter than to enjoy all that... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...cheap ; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! " When Piso built his house with great thoroughness from top to bottom, Augustus said to him, "You... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...cheap ; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence 1 BROUGHAM. Death of Nelson. — The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public... | |
 | William Linn Keese - Editors - 1883 - 112 pages
...a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say that...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence! " Then he loved to recall a striking figure made by Rufus Choate, in an oration he heard him deliver... | |
 | William Linn Keese - Editors - 1883 - 112 pages
...a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say that...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence! " Then he loved to recall a striking figure made by Rufus Choate, in an oration he heard him deliver... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — lef t it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." The following passage from Brougham's speech in the House of Commons on the Army Estimates, March 11,... | |
 | James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...it cheap ; found it a sealed book, left it an open letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor;— -found it the twoedged...the staff of honesty, and the shield of innocence ! " If found be read with the downward inflection — left with the upward, brick with the upward,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1883 - 648 pages
...it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor—found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence !" Lord Brougham was born in 1778, in St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh. His father was of aristocratic... | |
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But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor... 
