The Character of the GentlemanJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1864 - 121 páginas |
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Página 62 - To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other.
Página 62 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Página 15 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, Anjl bow before the awful will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 12 - Now I desire to speak to you as a friend and as 'a "gentleman:" if England and I arrive at an understanding 'in this matter, as regards the rest it matters little to me; it 'is indifferent to me what others do or think.
Página 120 - The credit belongs to others, and not to me. It belongs to Mr. Fox — to Mr. Grattan — to Mr. Plunkett — to the gentlemen opposite, and to an illustrious and right honourable friend of mine who is now no more.
Página 30 - Pistol, in Henry V., calls himself as "good a gentleman as the Emperor"; while Lord Campbell, in his Lives of the Lord Chancellors, informs us that when the Commons in 1640 were unwilling to vote supplies to Charles before sending their grievances, they were told by Lord Keeper Finch that they should freely vote the money, for "they had the word of a king, and not only so, but the word of a gentleman.
Página 65 - ... upon the witness, — he would affect earnestness upon trifles and levity upon subjects of the most serious import, until at length he succeeded in creating a security that was fatal, or a sullenness that produced all the consequences of prevarication. No matter how unfair the topic, he never failed to avail himself of it ; acting upon the principle, that in law, as well as in war, every stratagem was admissible. If he was hard pressed there was no peculiarity of person, no singularity of name,...
Página 64 - From this period he began rapidly to rise in professional estimation. There was no cause in the metropolis of any interest in which he was not concerned, nor was there a county in the provinces which at some time or other he did not visit on a special retainer. It was an object almost with every one to pre-occupy so successful or so dangerous an advocate ; for, if he failed in inducing a jury to sympathize with his client, he at all events left a picture of his adversary behind him, which survived...
Página 16 - Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne, very God and man; after his manhode kynge of the land of Jude and of Jues, gentilman by his modre Mary, prince of cote armure, &c.
Página 43 - there where the tenacious pitch is boiling, Michel Zanche had not yet arrived, when this man left a Devil in his stead in the body of himself, and of one of his kindred who did the treachery along with him. But reach hither thy hand: open my eyes"; and I opened them not for him: and to be rude to him was courtesy.