...to what was really a shocking occurrence. — A Corporation has been defined to be " a thing having neither a body to be kicked nor a soul to be damned." With this definition before him, Mr. O'Connell did not imagine that he exceeded the limits of, public...

...to what was really a shocking occurrence. — A Corporation has been defined to be " a thing having neither a body to be kicked nor a soul to be damned." With this definition before him, Mr. O'Connell did not imagine that he exceeded the limits of public...

...are too solid to be made the sport of legal metaphysics. The modern proverb, that a corporation has neither a body to be kicked, nor a soul to be damned, is only a sarcastic version of the serious maxim of our ancestors ; — that it is a thing which '...

...unproductive Trin. Coll. Duh. ; he may defy the lloyal Irish Academy, a learned assembly, which, alas ! has neither a body to be kicked, nor a soul to be damned, secure of the applause which sterling merit challenges from every freebom inhahitant of these islands,...

...unproductive Trin. Coll. Dub. ; he may defy the Royal Irish Academy, a learned assembly, which, alas ! has neither a body to be kicked, nor a soul to be damned ; and may rest secure of the applause which sterling merit challenges from every freeborn inhabitant...

...individual may be actuated by fear or pity or compunction ; party, as, according to the proverb, it has neither a body to be kicked nor a soul to be damned, is never known to temper its selfishness by any better feeling. Defcnditnumerus.jntuitaeqtie umbone...

...travelled. It is not, therefore, 1842.] [Mardi, Curran said that a corporation w.is a thing that had neither a body to be kicked, nor a soul to be damned. And, verily, I begin to think that masses of men are even more contemptible than individuals. Л nation...

...imitation is poor, vulgar, and unmeaning. 1842] {Match, Curran said that a corporation was a thing that had neither a body to be kicked, nor a soul to be damned. And, verily, I begin to think that masses of men are even more contemptible than individuals. A nation...

...felt by every member, and Curran was not far wrong when he said, a " corporation was a thing that had neither a body to be kicked, nor a soul to be damned." It is, indeed, a melancholy fact, that nations partake much more frequently of the bad than the good...

...the Legislature and the courts too much margin for construction, and they also grant immunities to a class of interests which the state is no more bound...cotton-mill charter with $300,000 capital, which had Debt. Repaii paid 478,194 28 2,224,208 73 9,933,000 00 3,726,96458 103,80413 126,91501 Interest, paid. 611,47634...