The moral, social, and professional duties of attornies and solicitorsWilliam Blackwood & Sons, 1848 - 448 pages |
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Page 342 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 389 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 232 - Horace has expressed in those two famous lines : ' -Si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidas imperti ; si non, his utere mecum.
Page 50 - Before Creation peopled earth, Its eye shall roll through chaos back; And where the furthest heaven had birth, The spirit trace its rising track; And where the future mars or makes, Its glance dilate o'er all to be. While sun is quench'd or system breaks, Fix'd in its own eternity.
Page 395 - But that a science, which distinguishes the criterions of right and wrong ; which teaches to establish the one, and prevent, punish, or redress the other ; which employs in its theory the noblest faculties of the soul, and exerts in its practice the cardinal virtues of the heart; a science, which is universal in its use and extent, accommodated to each individual, yet comprehending the whole community...
Page 373 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations...
Page 51 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right ; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 168 - ... pernicious consequence. I mean the custom by some so very warmly recommended, of dropping all liberal education, as of no use to students in the law : and placing them, in its stead, at the desk of some skilful attorney ; in order to initiate them early in all the depths of practice, and render them more dexterous in the mechanical part of business.
Page 148 - Act, he shall be liable to a fine of not less than $25.00, to be recovered before any justice of the peace at the suit of any person, on information in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, and when collected, the fine shall be paid to the county superintendent of schools.
Page 20 - There is not, in my opinion, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence ; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertions of a succession of wise men through a long course of ages ; withdrawing every case as it arises from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules ; extending the dominion of justice and reason, and gradually contracting, within the narrowest possible limits, the...