...one clerk can open the door without getting off his stool, while the other who elbows him at the same desk has equal facilities for poking the fire. A smell...make business for itself. There is no other principle dietinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this...

...one clerk can open the door without getting off his stool, while the other who elbows him at the same desk has equal facilities for poking the fire. A smell...for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainty, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes...

...which is highly respectable. And he is making hay of the grass which is flesh, for his three'daughters. . Tight it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them...

...only to the evils have no difficulty in picturing it in dark hues. Witness Dickens in Bleak House : " The one great principle of the English law is to make...consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Yiewed by this light, it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to...

...pronounced the Bar to be " the most dubious and disagreeable of all professions." Another authority says, " the one great principle of the English law is to make...consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings." Dr. Johnson, in his first dictionary, defined justice as " the virtue by which we give to every man...

...very respectable man, occupying the ground floor of Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane. Dickens declared that the one great principle of the English law is to make...business for itself. There is no other principle, he says, distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained throughout all its narrow turnings. Viewed...

..."A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats." Dickens in his Bleak House said, "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Some writers have insisted that this prejudice has been caused by poets and novelists, while others...

...country-man between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats." Charles Dickens in his Bleak House said, " The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Perhaps no writer has ever more severely criticised and caricatured the legal profession and the courts...

...English lawyers, articulated this view in Bleak House, when he observed that "the one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. There...Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, 322 and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it" (Dickens, 1971:603-604). This interpretation...

...when, in fact, only the lawyers stand to gain. For, as Dickens tells us through the story of Vholes, "the one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself" (2:39). Vholes, whose name means a shorttailed rat or field mouse, communicates like a rodent, his...