 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...cheap : found it a sealed book, left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left Y Z [ \ d e x R ! (From Speech in Parliament in 1828.) Among« his one hundred and thirty-three works (n vols. 1855-61,... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 656 pages
...it a patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of a craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." His irritable and jealous disposition, overwhelming egotism, and continual thirst for applause did... | |
 | James Beresford Atlay - Great Britain - 1906 - 534 pages
...it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword 9 of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.1 This speech may be said without exaggeration to have led, directly or indirectly, to a... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 318 pages
...cheap ; found it a sealed book, and 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." Speech, on Present State of the Law, February 7, 1828. 103 and his chancellorship, and his wordy triumphs... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1858 - 610 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 labored, in advance, because it is not... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1908 - 380 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...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! ' The immediate result of the debate was the issue of two Royal Commissions, the one to inquire into... | |
 | Law - 1912 - 1020 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...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.' "The work was carried on by others, until now it may perhaps be said that, without tyranny or oppression... | |
 | Edith Henrietta Fowler - Great Britain - 1912 - 732 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 ! ' " The virtual realization of that noble ideal is not the least among the many memorable triumphs... | |
 | Charles Henry Betts - Campaign literature - 1913 - 106 pages
...it cheap; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter; found Ft 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. I wish to invite your attention to another provision in the constitution, which relates to your individual... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 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 two-edged...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." It may be added that by a curious misprint, the Times in reporting this speech substituted the word... | |
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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... 
