 | 1845 - 758 páginas
...public history of the time. What we have already said has left us but too little space for considering his judicial character, on which it would have been...grudge The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge, In Israe1's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 628 páginas
...ShadesJudge. Character in Absalom and Achitophel. Purchased by a favour to Dryden. " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge ; In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abathdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unbought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.3 In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin4 With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 páginas
...crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 páginas
...crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. * A Jewish word... | |
 | 1846 - 502 páginas
...excellent judge, more from natural sagacity than any knowledge of law. Dryden has celebrated him : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." The third Earl of Shaftesbury was also a remarkable man. His collected... | |
 | 1846 - 506 páginas
...an excellent judge, more from natural than any knowledge of law. Dryden has celebrated him : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsougbt, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." The third Earl of Shaftesbury... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 páginas
...This estate, situated nearly on the border of Northamptonshire, about six miles * " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge : In Isr'els courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! Yet fame deserv'd fall speedily, And in their general ruin let me go....to : * than for thee To hold me foul. Peri. 0 yo Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 438 páginas
...the name of Achitophel, he gives him full credit for judicial integrity, in the following expressive lines : Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abuthden With more discerning eyes or hands more elean ; Unbrib'd, unbought, the wretched to redress,... | |
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With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. 
