 | William Linn Keese - Editors - 1884 - 122 pages
...cheap ; found it a sealed book-i-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 ! " Then he loved to recall a striking figure made by Rufus Choate, in an oration he heard him deliver... | |
 | William Ford - India - 1887 - 288 pages
...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 1 " — Law Reform, Lord Brougham, Vol. II. CERTAIN questions are ever cropping; up in India, and amongst... | |
 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1887 - 880 pages
...; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-pdjrrd sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of Unocence ! " — Lord Brougham. ignorance to intelligence, let them be supposed to have already attained... | |
 | Northwest, Old - 1890 - 492 pages
...living letter — found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor — found it a two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty, the shield of innocence." — Brougham. Laws are intended to govern, regulate and control society —... | |
 | Northwest, Old - 1890 - 500 pages
...living letter — found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor — found it a two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty, the shield of innocence." — Brougham. Laws are intended to govern, regulate and control society —... | |
 | Chiel amang the classes and the masses takin' notes - Verse satire, English - 1891 - 356 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 two-edged...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.' And elsewhere, in the published opinions of his Lordship, 1 find these sensible remarks of his, 'How... | |
 | William Mathews - Orators - 1891 - 468 pages
...it a living letter; fonnd it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor; fonnd It the twoedged sword of craft and oppression, left...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! " One of the chief merits of Brougham's oratory is its felicity in description. Having little imagination,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 634 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...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." The whole scheme of renovation is not yet complete ; but already may this proud boast be justly littered... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - Orators - 1896 - 476 pages
...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; found it the twoedged...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! " That he could be severe when tried, the following quotation from his speech in the House of Lords... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1896 - 800 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...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." On the other hand, there is often manifest a strong tendency to extravagance, as, for instance, in... | |
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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... 
