With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed... The North American Review - Seite 3981860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1834 - 612 Seiten
...Cases in Chancery. See 8 Am. Jurist, 273. Shaftsbury, Earl of, (Lord Chancellor.) • In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, • Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swifl of despatch and easy of access, , Oh ! had he... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 Seiten
...will ? Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another't guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but prai'e the judge. Jn Israel't courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, or hands more... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 246 Seiten
...added the four following lines in praise of the earl's conduct as lord-chancellor. " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Shaftesbury, now... | |
| Benjamin Martyn, Andrew Kippis - 1836 - 468 Seiten
...and therefore celebrated his conduct as lord chancellor in the following lines : In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. When King Charles... | |
| Benjamin Martyn - 1836 - 882 Seiten
...and therefore celebrated his conduct as lord chancellor in the following lines : In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. When King Charles... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 482 Seiten
...can wink, and no otfence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, tha wretched to redress Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 478 Seiten
...In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Ahethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unhrih'd, unsought, the wretched to redress Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he heen content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown , Or had the rankness... | |
| 1839 - 466 Seiten
...Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge j The statesmen we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress .; Swift of despatch, and easy of acccu. The 4th of July... | |
| 1840 - 372 Seiten
...ill, 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...to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness... | |
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