 | Stephen Coleridge - Fiction - 1922 - 256 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 twoedged...things, it has always seemed a worthier honour to be the 127 instrument of making you bestir yourselves in this high matter, than to enjoy all that office can... | |
 | David Patterson Dyer - Lawyers - 1922 - 368 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...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." Those are words — burning, eloquent words, that should be the "pillar of cloud by day and the pillar... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - Law - 1923 - 298 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 a fascinating task to anyone interested in legal history to go over the battlefields on which... | |
 | Henry Waters Taft - Justice, Administration of - 1926 - 288 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 and the shield of innocence!" This speech was followed by the appointment of a Royal Commission; and subsequently the investigations... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 534 pages
...found it the patrimony of the rich, left It the heritage of the poor; found it the two-edged sword by craft and oppression, left It the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." It has not quite come yet, but it upholds an ideal for which we may well be grateful. -The Lav; Journal.... | |
 | Bar Association of Arkansas - Bar associations - 1908 - 650 pages
...found it in 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." (Hans. Parl. Deb. 2 Ser. Vol. 18, p. 247*). • •;.- • '•'.•'•*•* »yi . *'- . . - - *-*_.&•.... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1888 - 1120 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 ." • real property. The reports of these commissions were followed by various acts of Parliament,... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1879 - 278 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." — Brougham. In response to this we will have the pleasure of hearing from Mr. David Dudley Field.... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1911 - 384 pages
...the patrimony of the Rich, left it the inheritance of the Poor; found it the two-edged sword of Graft and Oppression, left it the staff of Honesty and the shield of Innocence." For twenty or more years after the termination of his term as Lord Chancellor Lord Brougham continued... | |
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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... 
