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" ... the censure of a judge, coming slow but sure, should be a brand to the guilty, and a crown to the virtuous. You will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own: this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance... "
Letters - Page 72
by Francis Bacon - 1850
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the ...

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 654 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own: this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion...respect to the true end. You make the law to lean too mnch to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to he a legal tyrant, striking with that weapon where...
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The Judges of England: With Sketches of Their Lives, and ..., Volume 6

Edward Foss - 1857 - 544 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity more than it can advance the opinion of your wit. You make the law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to be a legal tyrant,...
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity more than it can advance the opinion...where you please, since you are able to turn the edge anyway. Your too much love of the world is too much seen, where, having the living of a thousand, you...
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity more than it can advance ' the opinion...much to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to he a legal tyrant, striking with that weapon where you please, since you are able to turn the edge...
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Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham, Volume 1

John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect to the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity more than it can advance the opinion...please, since you are able to turn the edge any way. Your too much love of the world is too much seen, where, having the living of a thousand, you relieve...
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The judges of England, from the time of the Conquest, Volume 6

Edward Foss - 1857 - 552 pages
...will jest at any man in publie, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity more than it can advance the opinion of your wit. You make the law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to be a legal tyrant,...
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The Judges of England: With Sketches of Their Lives, and ..., Volume 6

Edward Foss - 1857 - 540 pages
...will jest at any man in publie, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity more than it can advance the opinion of your wit. You make the law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to be a legal tyrant,...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 pages
...authority and power with the relish of one who loved them too keenly. " You make the laws too much lean to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to be a legal tyrant," said Lord Bacon, in his admonitory letter to Coke. In 1616 Coke was out of favour for more causes than...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the ...

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own: this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion...be a legal tyrant, striking with that weapon where yon please, since you are able to turn the edge any way : for thus the wise master of the law gives...
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The Life and Correspondence of Francis Bacon

J. F. Foard - 1861 - 592 pages
...or your own. This disgraceth your gravity, which, like all your actions, has a touch of vain glory, having no respect to the true end. You make the law...be a legal tyrant, striking with that weapon where 404 THE SAMARITAN AND THE WOUNDED MAN. you please, since you are able to turn the edge any way. Your...
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