Lord Bowen: A Biographical Sketch with a Selection from His VersesJ. Murray, 1897 - 252 strani |
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Lord Bowen: A Biographical Sketch (Classic Reprint) Henry Stewart Cunningham Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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Stran 67 - I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Stran 159 - The substance of my view is this: that competition, however severe and egotistical, if unattended by circumstances of dishonesty, intimidation, molestation, or such illegalities as I have above referred to, gives rise to no cause of action at common law.
Stran 244 - Like clouds that rake the mountainsummits, Or waves that own no curbing hand. How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks in whispers, " Who next will drop and disappear...
Stran 64 - And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with' Speech ; "And all we met was fair and good, And all was good that Time could bring, And all the secret of the Spring Moved...
Stran 159 - ... however severe and egotistical, if unattended by circumstances of dishonesty, intimidation, molestation, or such illegalities as I have above referred to, gives rise to no cause of action at common law. I myself should deem it to be a misfortune if we were to attempt to prescribe to the business world how honest and peaceable trade was to be carried on in a case where no such illegal elements as I have mentioned exist, or were to adopt some standard of judicial "reasonableness," or of "normal"...
Stran 165 - A study of the law so executed will become one full of interest. Its effect will be to make that study a living thing, to put life into dead bones, to illuminate with sunshine dusty books. I am astonished when I hear at times the suggestion that our profession must be dull. The truer view would be that our work is inordinately engrossing. Time runs by the lawyer far too like the race in a mill stream . . . ." "Is our occupation narrowing to the mind?
Stran 152 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Stran 169 - Courts of the realm seemed constantly occupied in the discussion of the merest legal conundrums, which bore no relation to the merits of any controversies except those of pedants, and in the direction of a machinery that belonged already to the past.
Stran 147 - It may be asserted without fear of contradiction that It is not possible in the year 1887 for an honest litigant in Her Majesty's Supreme Court to be defeated by any mere technicality, any slip, any mistaken step in his litigation.
Stran 196 - Old Virgil who would write ten lines, they say, At dawn, and lavish all the golden day To make them wealthier in his readers...