 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1829 - 392 pages
...481. North, 38, 46, 67, 8, CO. It were, however, unfair to omit the praise allotted him by an enemy. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. To their disappointment,... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 610 pages
...Am. Jurist, 273. Shaftsbury, Earl of, (Lord Chancellor.) ' In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abcthilin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched lo redress ; Swift of despatch and easy of access, Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 656 pages
...28th 1682-3. Dryden, in the 2d edition of Absalom and Achitophel, said of him — " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge •, " The Statesman we abhor,...ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes, with hands more " clean ; " Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...in the warmest terms. " Yet fame deserved," he says, '•' No enemy can grudge , The statesman vie abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access." July 27. —... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 650 pages
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean — Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O had he been... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 654 pages
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean — Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O had he been... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 514 pages
...Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes, with hands more " clean ; " Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." (Malone.) When the King one day, either in jest, or out of pique, said to Lord Shaftesbury, " Thou... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...changed his opinion, when he found it unpopular, as we have observed above, down to Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. O. The pillars of the public safety shook ; And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke : Then seiz'd with... | |
 | John Bayley Sommers Carwithen - 1833 - 426 pages
...; AD The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. 1672' In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd,...to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 612 pages
...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...clean, • Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swifl of despatch and easy of access, , Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtue! only... | |
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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! 
