 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1908 - 368 pàgines
...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...it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! ' The immediate result of the debate was the issue of two Royal Commissions, the one to inquire into... | |
 | 1912 - 1020 pàgines
...pit of Chancery." After speaking six hours on this subject Brougham concluded with this language: " ' It was the boast of Augustus, it formed part of the...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.' "The work was carried on by others, until now it may perhaps be said that, without tyranny or oppression... | |
 | 1912 - 1024 pàgines
...formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost, that he found Eome of brick and left it of marble; a praise not unworthy...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.' " The work was carried on by others, until now it may perhaps be said that, without tyranny or oppression... | |
 | Edith Henrietta Fowler - 1912 - 732 pàgines
...living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it a two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence ! ' " The virtual realization of that noble ideal is not the least among the many memorable triumphs... | |
 | Charles Henry Betts - 1913 - 106 pàgines
...that he found law dear and left it cheap; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter; found Ft the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. I wish to invite your attention to another provision in the constitution, which relates to your individual... | |
 | 1917 - 476 pàgines
...Augustus—it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost—that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble; a praise...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." It may be added that by a curious misprint, the Times in reporting this speech substituted the word... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 256 pàgines
...you overcame! The lustre of the Regency will be eclipsed by the more solid and enduring splen126 dour of the Reign. The praise which false courtiers feigned...things, it has always seemed a worthier honour to be the 127 instrument of making you bestir yourselves in this high matter, than to enjoy all that office can... | |
 | David Patterson Dyer - 1922 - 368 pàgines
...marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say, that he found the law dear and left it cheap; found it a sealed book,...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." Those are words — burning, eloquent words, that should be the "pillar of cloud by day and the pillar... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1923 - 298 pàgines
...of the boast of Augustus, who found a Rome of brick and left it of marble. " But," he continued, " how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when...the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." It is a fascinating task to anyone interested in legal history to go over the battlefields on which... | |
 | Henry Waters Taft - 1926 - 288 pàgines
...living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor; found it a two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence!" This speech was followed by the appointment of a Royal Commission; and subsequently the investigations... | |
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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... 
