Eunomus: Or, Dialogues Concerning the Law and Constitution of England: With an Essay on Dialogue, Volume 1B. White, 1774 - Constitutional law |
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againſt agreeable anſwer antient arithme arts becauſe beft beſt cafe Canon Law cauſe character Civil Law common common law compariſon confequence confider confiftent Conftitution connection converfation courſe eloquence Engliſh eſtabliſhed EUNOMUS exiſtence faid fame fatire feems fenfe feveral fhall fhew fidered firft firſt fociety fome meaſure fpeaker ftate ftill ftudy fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed fure greateſt hiftorian himſelf hiſtory Homer imagination inftances inftructive itſelf judge juft juftice kind Law of England lawyer leaſt lefs leſs logue Lord Bacon Lord Coke manner ment moft moſt mufic muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary notion obferve occafion perfon pleaſed poem poets POLICRITES prefent Profeffion purpoſe queſtion racters reaſon refpect reſemblance ſcarce ſcenes ſciences ſeem ſhall ſhould Sir Thomas Smith ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtill ſtudy ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion treatiſe Tully underſtanding uſe writers Xenophon yourſelf
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Page xxi - like the fea, which is neither " agreeable to the beholder, nor " the voyager, in a calm or in a
Page 61 - whether it was a time, when the " little finger of the '* law was heavier than the loins of *' the prerogative;
Page 41 - while it convinces the judgment; may bear down all oppofition, and carry every thing in triumph before it. To explain myfelf, I will not fcruple to fay, an addrefs to a Jury is the field for eloquence; as an addrefs to the Court is for argument. And thus (however they may accidentally intermix) the provinces of
Page xc - then, with the vanity of an author, compare myfelf to one who in his travels over a bleak and dreary country, has picked up fome plants, which he afterwards transfers to fome delightful fpot,
Page xc - may make them admired even among more agreeable productions, by thofe who would never have vifited them on their native foil. And if after all they fhould have any medicinal virtues ufeful in life, they will be welcome wherever they can be made to grow.
Page xlvi - very early example. The treatifes of Plato and Tully of this name, are ftill extant to vindicate the aflertion. The Law of England in particular, fo very liberal and diffufive in its nature, will fcarce be difputed to afford many entertaining and
Page 39 - And the notion is as deftitute of found judgment, as it is contrary to experience. Nor do I think the notion of others is better founded, who maintain, that an Englifh bar will not admit of Eloquence, being of a nature extremely different from the courfe of judicature in Athens or Rome : from which as we are fuppofed to be acquainted with
Page 12 - be inclined to think rather favourably of his head^ and at the fame time you find no grounds for any imputation on his heart^ you will give your verdift in his favour; but if, upon the whole, you, think
Page xlvi - for converfation. And this propriety which ftands its ground in the eye of reafon, has an additional fupport from very early example. The treatifes of Plato and Tully of this name, are ftill extant to vindicate the aflertion.
Page 42 - hand, compared to its original exertion and influence, is like a print copied from a painting of Titian's or. Claude. Lorain's ; which may be correct enough, perhaps, as to the defign, but muft be