 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1896 - 532 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." It is recorded that Brougham wrote the peroration of his concluding speech for the defence of Queen... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1897 - 320 pages
...a beautiful nook of that mountain shore which sweeps eastward from the neighborhood of Martwo-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." Speech, on 1'resent State of the Law, February 7, 1828. settles — along the Mediterranean, and which... | |
 | 1897 - 448 pages
...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. AN ADDRESS ON MALARIAL FEVER.* By WILLIAM SIDNEY THAYER, MD, Associate Proffessor of Medicine in the... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1897 - 320 pages
...beautiful nook of that mountain shore which sweeps eastward from the neighborhood of Martwo-edged swonl of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." Speech, on Present State of the Law, February 7, 1828. settles — along the Mediterranean, and which... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Biography & Autobiography - 1898 - 424 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." Our American reformer was no sovereign and had no power to establish law by a decree, but standing... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 498 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 two-edged...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence 1 — Peroration of the speech on Law RefOt'tHt Leosthenes and the Patriot Dead — Hyperldes: With... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Law - 1899 - 602 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 I " On Brougham's elevation to the woolsack, Daniel O'Connell said: " If Brougham knew a little law,... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - Egypt - 1900 - 302 pages
...the privilege of the rich, left it the patrimony of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of fraud and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." And the whole of this great and beneficent work, of which Lord Cromer, as has been said, was from first... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 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 I — (Peroration of the speech on Law Reform.) Public Benefactors and Their Rewards-- It has been... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 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 I — (Peroration of the speech on Law Reform.) any longer, has been their fate. But truth will survive,... | |
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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... 
