| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1869 - 654 páginas
...life peerages, as a great legal authority, quoting Uryden's well-known lines, — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or...Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Coming to constitutional considerations, he pointed out with irresistible... | |
| sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 páginas
...deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. 35 In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretehed to redress ; Swift of dispateh and easy of access. Oh had he been... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 páginas
...In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abcthdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swift of despatch and easy of access. O, had he been content to serve the crown With virtue only proper to the gown; Or had the rankness... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 páginas
...fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin 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... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1869 - 602 páginas
...the character of Jeffrey may be summed up in the vigorous stanza of Dryden : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, TJnbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." All accounts... | |
| Henry Carrington Alexander - 1870 - 472 páginas
...With more discerning eyes, or bauds more clean ; -«T. 49.] SINCERITY AND AFFECTION. 846 Unbribed, unsought the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." With regard to his feelings towards those whom he loved to associate with on intimate terms, the testimony... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 páginas
...In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean,1 Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch and easy of access. Oh had he been content to serve the crown With virtue only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 páginas
...Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, . . , , Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, .Swift of despatch and easy of access.' Lord Campbell objects t'aat, had Dryden been sincere, his testimony testimony ought not to have much... | |
| 1871 - 650 páginas
...In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access.' Lord Campbell objects that, had Dryden been sincere, his testimony ought not to have much weight, for... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1871 - 366 páginas
...fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch and easy of access." d. " Engaged his... | |
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