 | Education - 1859 - 736 pages
...present reigu has its 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 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 - 660 pages
...present reign 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...; 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... | |
 | Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - Law reform - 1860 - 286 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 ;...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... | |
 | 1883 - 620 pages
...and 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...rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the twoedged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence."... | |
 | Periodicals - 1861 - 260 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
...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... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1863 - 608 pages
...been commenced, Lord Brougham eloquently foreshadowed the boast of that sovereign who should 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."... | |
 | John Wilson - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1863 - 514 pages
...Hut huw 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...— 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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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... 
