 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...And again, at the close of the same passage, there is direct testimony to worth — Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean. Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swift of despatch and easy of access. Shaftesbury was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...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 we abhor, but...the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin L •. With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress... | |
 | Robert Richard Pearce - Admission to the bar - 1855 - 488 pages
...resignation of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, he was appointed Lord Chancellor. Dryden says of him : — " 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." For his opposition... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1855 - 286 pages
...of the writs issued durIt were, however, unfair to omit the praiae allotted to him by an enemy : — In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean : ITnbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. 1 Compare James,... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own I Vet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courte ne'er sat an Л belli din With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribcd, unsought,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman wo abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er...•• With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 pages
...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 we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts nu'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.4 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...can wink, and no ofl'ence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise...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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1857 - 448 pages
...can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge ; In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abothdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, 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... | |
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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! 
