 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 pages
...which he is entitled. There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance....judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." — This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity... | |
 | American Institute of Electrical Engineers - 1900 - 1048 pages
...entitled. ' There must always be some ad vantage on one side or the other,and it is better that the advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes until they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim,... | |
 | American Institute of Electrical Engineers - 1900 - 844 pages
...is entitled. There must always be some advantage on oikc side or the otheiymd it is better that the advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes until they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim,... | |
 | James P. Cannon - 1908 - 454 pages
...which he is entitled. There must, also, be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance....judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Dr. Johnson's views, as I have said, are the views that have generally satisfied the profession.... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - 1917 - 656 pages
...which he is entitled. There must always be some advantage on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance....judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.' — This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - 1919 - 216 pages
...entitled. There must always be some advantage, on the one side or the other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance....judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Cicero, in discussing the same question, speaks with more hesitation : " This precept of duty... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 pages
...he is entitled. There must always be some advantage on one side or the other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance....judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Is it not right then to assert not only that Johnson's mind was that of a lawyer in the best... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 pages
...he is entitled. There must always be some advantage on one side or the other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance....were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a 132 trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 pages
...which he is entitled. There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance....judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.' — This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity... | |
 | Canadian Bar Association - 1922 - 392 pages
...advantage, on one side o? other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chances. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were...judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Now, ladies and gentlemen, in one or two concluding words —for I have detained you a long... | |
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If by a superiority of attention, of knowledge, of skill, and a better method of communication, he has the advantage of his adversary, it is an advantage to which he is entitled. There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better... 
