 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1880 - 592 pages
...arms you overcome ! The luster of the Regency will be eclipsed by the more solid and enduring splendor of the Reign. The praise which false courtiers feigned...reflecting on these things, it has always seemed a worthier honor to be the instrument of making you bestir yourselves in this high matter, than to enjoy all that... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...results than any other speech, ancient or modern." He spoke on this occasion for six hours, and concluded thus : " It was the boast of Augustus — it formed...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." "Measures, not Men." — Addressing the House of Commons in November, 1830, Mr. Brougham said : " I... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1318 pages
...and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign has also its claims. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! " On the adjourned debate of the 29th of February, upon Mr. Brougham's proposition for a Commission,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 336 pages
...the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast,...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence !" Nobody needs to be told that this conclusion must have been laboured in advance, because it is not... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1881 - 390 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...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." Thirty-five years have passed since these memorable words were spoken, and the great aspiration is... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - Bar associations - 1915 - 274 pages
...it a sealed book; left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich; left it the heritage of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." Our own Federal government needs the simplification of its procedure in just such a way as is proposed... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...contained in the peroration of Brougham's speech on Law Reform, in the House of Commons, February, 1828 : " It was the boast of Augustus, — it formed part of...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! " When Piso built his house with great thoroughness from top to bottom, Augustus said to him, "You... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - 1882 - 514 pages
...earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble; a praise not unworthy of a great prince, and to which the present reign also...reflecting on these things, it has always seemed a worthier honor to be the instrument of making you bestir yourselves in this high matter than to enjoy all that... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble, — a praise not unworthy of a great prince, and to which the present reign also...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence 1 BROUGHAM. Death of Nelson. — The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public... | |
 | James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...have it to say that \izfound law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book, left it an open letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left...the staff of honesty, and the shield of innocence ! " If found be read with the downward inflection — left with the upward, brick with the upward,... | |
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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... 
