 | John Sanderson - 1828 - 338 pages
...individuals, its study is eminently calculated to enlarge the understanding and improve the reason, and is "in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind; in its debasement, the most sordid and the most pernicious." In 1755, he was placed in the commission of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...obligations men lie under of applying themselves to certain parts of history, and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the law ; in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and abasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more, 1 speak of ninety-nine... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...ol history ; and I can hardly f чЬгаг doing it in that of the law, in its nature the noble«! et -illiterate hominum consentit et " moribus expressum." Our ancient lawyers, and p roost pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more, I speak of ninety-nine in a hundred at least, to use... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 430 pages
...under of applying themselves to certain parts of history, and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of law ; in its nature, the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and abasement, the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer, now, is nothing more, (I speak of ninety-nine... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...obligations men lie under of applying themselves to certain parts of history, and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the law ; in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and abasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more, I speak of ninety-nine... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1835 - 582 pages
...obligations men lie under of applying themselves to certain parts of history ; and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the law : in its nature the noblest...— in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and pernicious. A lawyer *, now, is nothing more — I speak of ninety- nine in a hundred at least, —... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 400 pages
...obligations men lie under of applying themselves to certain parts of history, and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the law ; in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and abasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more, I speak of ninety-nine... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1840 - 444 pages
...perversion. Bolingbroke does only justice to the legal profession, when he pourtravs it as being, " in its nature, the noblest and most beneficial to...mankind; in its abuse and debasement, the most sordid and pernicious." It was in this plate of depression on the decline of Roman jurisprudence, during the latter... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 498 pages
...great grandson of the Earl of Clarendon, Bolingbroke, after speaking of the profession of the law as "in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to...debasement, the most sordid and the most pernicious," makes the following remarks, both eloquent and true : " There have been lawyers that were orators,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Judges - 1850 - 188 pages
...of history addressed to Lord Cornbury, Bolingbroke, after speaking of the profession of the law aa " in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind,...debasement, the most sordid and the most pernicious," makes the following remarks, admirable alike for their eloquence and truth : — " There have been... | |
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I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the law; in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. 
