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" We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Illustrated ; Embracing a Life of ... - Page 346
by William Shakespeare - 1850 - 38 pages
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...lawyers, — their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defence of right and wrong. — Junius. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it...custom make it their perch, and not their terror. — Sliakespeare. Strict laws are like steel bodice, good for growing limbs ; but when the joints are...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...OCCUPATIONS-MEDICINE. 439 We have strict statutes and most biting laws. a. Measure for Measure. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 19. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...till custom make it Their perch and not their terror. b. Measure far Measure. Act II. Sc. 1. LI When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no...
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The Canadian Law Times, Volume 16

Canada - 1896 - 852 pages
...since. Some have been amended in several sections, making in all one hundred and fourteen amendments. " We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting...custom make it Their perch and not their terror." The Succession Duties Act, 1892, which, when it came into operation, disclosed that there were not...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious ..., Volume 1873

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...the nose. SHAKSPEARE. Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. SHAKSPEARE. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. SHAKSPEARE. Those many had not dared to do that evil If the first man that did th' edict infringe Had...
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Shakespere's Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 346 pages
...you : Commend me to my brother ; soon at night I '11 send him certain word of my success. Lucio. I take my leave of you. Isab. Good sir, adieu. Exeunt....the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, ACT n, Sc. I MEASURE FOR MEASURE 255 And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and...
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Dictionary of Quotations: (English)

Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...faith and morals hold Which Milton held." WORDSWORTH. Poems to National Independence, Pt. I., XVI. " We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror." " We must take our poets as we do our meals— as they are served up to us." AUG. BIRRKLL. Obiter Dicta,...
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The Vale Shakespeare, Volume 28

William Shakespeare - 1902 - 134 pages
...Angelo'shouse.^»Enter Angelo, Escalus, and a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants, behind. 3^» ANGELO. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. ESCALUS. Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas,...
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The Handbook of Oratory: A Cyclopedia of Authorities on Oratory as an Art ...

William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...Prom labor health, from health contentment springs. — Seattle: • Minstrel* Book I. LAW, LAWYERS We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. — Shakespeare: 'Measure for Measure* Act II. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being...
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The Cyclopedia of Oratory: A Handbook of Authorities on Oratory as an Art ...

W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...labor health, from health contentment springs. — Bealtie. * Minstrel, • Book I. * LAW, LAWYERS We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. — Shakespeare: 'Measure for Measure* Act II. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt. But, being...
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The Vale of Cedars: Or, The Martyr

Grace Aguilar - Inquisition - 1906 - 352 pages
...but as a tribute from the gratitude of a sovereign—and a nation's love. CHAPTER XVII. ANGELO.—We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. ESCALUS.— Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall and bruise to death. SHAKSPEARE....
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