 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1865 - 672 pages
...sovereign who should 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1865 - 684 pages
...sovereign who should 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...the staff of honesty, and the shield of in'nocence." The whole scheme of renovation is not yet complete : but already may this proud boast be justly uttered... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1866 - 622 pages
...when ho shall have it to say, that he found law dear and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book, nnd left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of...inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." On the Frame of a Bill for Enabling... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1866 - 622 pages
...when he shall have 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 the patrimony of...inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." 163 On the Frame of a Bill for... | |
 | John McGilchrist - Statesmen - 1868 - 284 pages
...sovereign's boast, when he shall have 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...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. Brougham concluded by moving for the appointment of a commission " to inquire into the defects occasioned... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 384 pages
...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...the staff of .honesty and the shield of innocence ! ' * Friends in Council. ' Why may not this be a lawyer's skull V muses Hamlet, in the graveyard ;... | |
 | 1868 - 986 pages
...boast, when he shall have to say that he found law dear and left it cheap —found it a sealed bonk, left it a living letter — found it the patrimony...craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty aud the shield of innocence." (pp. 1-45, 14C.) The ensuing twenty-five years of Lord Brougham's long... | |
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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 ; found... 
