 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...  Autobiography and Reminiscences - Page 319by David Patterson Dyer - 1922 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 660 pages
...claims. 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,...; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the patrimony of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, k-ft it the sUitf of... | |
 | Education - 1859 - 736 pages
...claims. Hut how mueh nobler will bo 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,...: found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the patrimony of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left ii the staff of... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 656 pages
...it a sealed book, left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the patrimony of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! To me, much reflecting un these things, it has always seemed a worthier honor to be the instrument... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1859 - 686 pages
...it a sealed book, left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the patrimony of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the stiiti* of honesty and the shield of innocence ! To me, much reflecting on these tilings, it has always... | |
 | Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - Law reform - 1860 - 286 pages
...claims. 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,...the staff of Honesty and the shield of Innocence! To me, much reflecting on these things, it has always seemed a worthier honour to be the instrument... | |
 | 1883 - 620 pages
...may this generation, in the stirring words of Brougham, be able to utter the boast that " They found Law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book,...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." Jn anil about ijij&c jJarh. IT is, I believe, an old-established axiom that if you wish to please people,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1861 - 262 pages
...closing words of that renowned speech to which I have already referred : — " Ho found law dear and loft it cheap ; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of tho rieb, left it tho inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft lud oppression,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1862 - 738 pages
...claims. 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...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence !" On the adjourned debate of the 29th of February, upon Mr. Brougham's proposition for a Commission,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1863 - 608 pages
...Brougham eloquently foreshadowed the boast of that sovereign who should have it to say " that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book,...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 uttered... | |
 | John Wilson - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1863 - 514 pages
...to which the present reign [of G.-orge IV.] is not without claims. Hut huw much nobler will be our Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that...— found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inhcritancc of the poor — found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff... | |
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