Hints on Advocacy, Intended for Practitioners in Civil and Criminal Courts: With Suggestions as to Opening a Case, Examination-in-chief, Cross-examination, Re-examination, Reply, Conduct of a Prosecution and of a Defense, Etc., and Illustrative CasesW.H. Stevenson, 1884 - 208 páginas |
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Página 117 - 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 ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the...
Página 156 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Página 169 - An aged man, without an enemy in the world, in his own house, and in his own bed, is made the victim of a butcherly murder, for mere pay.
Página 169 - England society, let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate, and the blood-shot eye emitting livid fires of malice.
Página 117 - 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 115 - Juries have declared that they felt it impossible to remove their looks from him when he had riveted and, as it were, fascinated them by his first glance...
Página 198 - I am convinced that the most effectual mode of eliciting truth is quite different from that by which an honest, simple-minded witness is most easily baffled and confused. I have seen the experiment tried of subjecting a witness to such a kind of cross-examination by a...
Página 172 - I am the Rider of the wind, The Stirrer of the storm; The hurricane I left behind Is yet with lightning warm...
Página 174 - I owe my success in life to one single fact, namely, that at the age of twenty-seven I commenced, and continued for years, the practice of daily reading and speaking upon the contents of some historical or scientific book. These off-hand efforts were made sometimes in a corn-field, at others in the forest, and not unfrequently in some distant barn, with the horse and the ox for my auditors.
Página 115 - was always appropriate, chaste, easy, natural .... the tones of his voice, though sharp, were full, destitute of any tinge of Scotch accent, and adequate to any emergency — almost scientifically modulated to the occasion." Speaking of action, I may say, that all the advice ever given by would-be teachers of the art of speaking, as to gesture, is absolutely worthless. A good speaker has a natural and appropriate gesture ; a bad speaker has none at all. You can no more learn gesture than you can...