 | Henry Southern - 1820
...was, also, to use the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a judge's tendency to serve his turn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion." He never contested a point with a judge when he despaired to convince him, but resigned it, even when... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...was, also, to use the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a judge's tendency to serve his turn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion." He never contested a point with a judge when he despaired to convince him, but resigned it, even when... | |
 | Books - 1820
...was, also, to use the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a judge's tendency to serve his turn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion." He never contested a point with a judge when he despaired to convince him, but resigned it, even when... | |
 | 1837
...of a lawyer, inns of court commons and conversation may be of vast use. In circuit practice there ia need of an exquisite knowledge of the judge's humour,...get credit; because the judge, for the most part, thinhs that person the best lawyer that respects most his opinion. I have heard his lordship say that... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 354 pages
...was, also, to use the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a judge's tendency to serve his turn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion." He never contested a point with a judge when he despaired to convince him, but resigned it, even when... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845
...well as his learning and ability to try causes ; and he, North, was a wonderful artist at watching a Judge's tendency, to make it serve his turn, and...thinks that person the best lawyer that respects most Ids opinion. I have heard his Lordship say, that sometimes he hath been forced to give up a cause to... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...was, also, to use the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a judge's tendency to serve his turn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion." He never contested a point with a judge when he despaired to convince him, but resigned it, even when... | |
 | English essays - 1852
...was, also, to use the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a judge's tendency to serve his turn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion." He never contested a point with a judge when he despaired to convince him, but resigned it, even when... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1854 - 172 pages
...the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a judge's tendency to serve his torn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion." He never contested a point with a judge when he despaired to convince him, but resigned it, even when... | |
 | 1863
....North, was a wonderful artist at watching a judge's tendency, to make it serve his turn, ami v (.'. t never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference...for so they get credit, because the judge, for the moat part, thinks that person the best lawyer that respects most his opinion. I have heard his lordship... | |
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If he discovered a point which his leader had omitted, he would not excite dislike by moving it himself, but suggest it to his senior, and thus conciliate his regard. He was, also, to use the words of his biographer, " a wonderful artist in nicking a... 
