 | Law - 1895 - 914 pages
...that " most men are allured to the trade of the law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity which...terms, fat, contentions, and flowing fees ? " These, also, of course, are slanders. In truth and in fact, the lawyer is the thrower of oil upon the troubled... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1895 - 104 pages
...Law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity 2r which was never taught them, but on the promising...litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees ; others betake them to state affairs, with souls 5 so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...zealous divinity; some allur'd toe the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which...litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees; others betake them to State affairs, with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1897 - 598 pages
...stenographer. Milton describes the lawyers of his day as '• Grounding their purposes, not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which...litigious terms, fat contentions and flowing fees." It is a sad truth that to-day many members of the profession degrade their calling by taking the most... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 450 pages
...zealous divinity; some allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which...litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees; others betake them to state affairs, with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding,... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1905 - 284 pages
...zealous Divinity ; Some allur'd to the trade of Law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity which...litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees ; others betake them to State affairs, with souls so unprincipl'd in virtue, and true generous breeding,... | |
 | Charles Warren - Law - 1908 - 616 pages
...petition the pro"Most men are allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity which...litigious terms, fat contentions and flowing fees." (i) See review of American Jurist. Vol. I in North American Review, Vol. XXIX (Oct. 1829). prietary... | |
 | 1911 - 568 pages
...the trade of law, who ground their purposes not on the heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions and flowing fees." The undertaker who leaves his wagon in front of your door while he comes in to get a death certificate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1909 - 360 pages
...zealous divinity; some allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity which...litigious terms, fat contentions and flowing fees; others betake them to State affairs, with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding,... | |
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... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees... 
