 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1841 - 710 pages
...youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black it white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves." — SWIFT. THE recent irregularities of the Post Office deliveries hare caused the following letter... | |
 | Edward O'Brien (barrister-at-law.) - 1842 - 330 pages
...brought upon their calling ; let the following suffice. Swift describes Lawyers as " A society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by...black, and black is white, according as they are paid." " They were Lawyers .... men full of subtilty." — Burkes French Revolution. " Lawyer ! I believe... | |
 | John Stewart - Ethics - 1849 - 244 pages
...reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what he ought to do, and what to avoid. I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from...my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer 10 prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must then hire another to defend my right, it being... | |
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 538 pages
...accordingly, in the voyage to the Houyhnhnms, makes Gulliver tell his master, the Grey Horse, that " there was a society of men among us, bred up from...this society all the rest of the people are slaves It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that... | |
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 528 pages
...accordingly, in the voyage to the Houyhnhnms, makes Gulliver tell his master, the Grey Horse, that " there was a society of men among us, bred up from...this society all the rest of the people are slaves It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...injustices that had been done me : however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able." I said, " there was a society of men among us, bred up from...rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 488 pages
...remark of the llouyhnhnm, Gulliver's master: " I said, there wns a society of men among us, bred чр from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied...purpose, that white is black, and black is white, ncctmling as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people «re slaves. For example, if... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...Gulliver's description of the Lawyers, and the closing remark of the Houyhnhnm, Gulliver's master: " I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youtli in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...description of the Lawyers, and the closing remark of the ïïouyhuhnm, Gulliver's master: " I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youtli in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1855 - 846 pages
...procured by just and honest Methods : The better to bring which about, very many Men among us were [bred up from their Youth in the Art of proving by...Black, and Black is White, according as they are paid.] The Greatness of these Mens Assurance and the Boldness of their Pretensions gained upon the Opinion... | |
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I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. 
