| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...rcign has its claims also. But how much nobler will be our Sovercign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap...found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritanee of the poor! found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff... | |
| Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...over the sorrows of a helpless family ! But how much nobler will be our sovereign's boast in having it to say that he found law dear, and left it cheap : found it a sealed book, and left it a living letter : found it a patrimony of the rich ; left it the inheritance of the poor... | |
| International law - 1852 - 470 pages
...reign also has its 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...— 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... | |
| Scotland - 1852 - 840 pages
...say that he found law dear, See our June Number—" The Great Question," p. 762. and left it cheap ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of fraud and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence... | |
| John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...But how much nobler will be our Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found the law dear, and left it cheap — found it a sealed...rich, left it the inheritance of the poor— found it the two-edged sword of cratt and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence."... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1857 - 508 pages
...reign also has its 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...— 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... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1857 - 462 pages
...reign also has its 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...— 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... | |
| English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...brick and left it of marble. 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 ;...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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 598 pages
...brick and left it of marble. 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 ;...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... | |
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