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... morals and learning . The court then asked the bar if they consented , and on their bowing their assent , the oath was adminis- tered and the new attorney introduced to the bar . The whole company would then adjourn to the tavern to ...
... morals and learning . The court then asked the bar if they consented , and on their bowing their assent , the oath was adminis- tered and the new attorney introduced to the bar . The whole company would then adjourn to the tavern to ...
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... morality . " The other theory would elevate the practice of the law to the dignity which pertains to a department of the government , considering the lawyer as a minister of jus- tice and an officer of the court . It would close the ...
... morality . " The other theory would elevate the practice of the law to the dignity which pertains to a department of the government , considering the lawyer as a minister of jus- tice and an officer of the court . It would close the ...
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... moral triumph but a sublime act of patriotism tell- ing of a reverence for law when John Adams in 1770 defended , in the courts of Boston , Captain Preston and his six soldiers of the British army , charged with murder in firing upon ...
... moral triumph but a sublime act of patriotism tell- ing of a reverence for law when John Adams in 1770 defended , in the courts of Boston , Captain Preston and his six soldiers of the British army , charged with murder in firing upon ...
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... moral power as simply a germ , which you should cultivate and develop with unabated industry through all your life . I. In the first place , observe that if you do not stir up this gift , it will wither and shrink from disuse . You can ...
... moral power as simply a germ , which you should cultivate and develop with unabated industry through all your life . I. In the first place , observe that if you do not stir up this gift , it will wither and shrink from disuse . You can ...
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... moral power have increased your obligation , as they have your ability , to carry further and further the development of your mind and the elevation of your character . He that has ten talents is in the para- ble asked to produce ten ...
... moral power have increased your obligation , as they have your ability , to carry further and further the development of your mind and the elevation of your character . He that has ten talents is in the para- ble asked to produce ten ...
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Página 81 - ... and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb...
Página 13 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 27 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 77 - The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil. Political reason is a computing principle; adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally and not metaphysically or mathematically, true moral denominations.
Página 87 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Página 24 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the Judge ; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Página 24 - Lordships, which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world — that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the...
Página 16 - I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the ENGLISH BAR ; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Página 29 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Página 77 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line.