 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 страници
...private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ? Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since...; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel*t courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, or hand* more clean, Vnbribed, unsought,... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 438 страници
...of Achitophel, he gives him full credit for judicial integrity, in the following expressive lines : Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abuthden With more discerning eyes or hands more elean ; Unbrib'd, unbought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Bayly Somers Carwithen - 1849 - 632 страници
...told ; but history will lay down the pen, and join in the strains of poetry : — "Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | John Lingard - 1844 - 386 страници
...observed that almost all, whether designedly or not, were dissenters, a circumstance which awakened In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed. untaught, the wretched to redress. Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Dryden, dbx.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 страници
...private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 Yet fame deserr'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1850 - 318 страници
...quoted — " Yet fame desei ved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the j udge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." A report was... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 480 страници
...celebrated lines in praise of his judicial character in " ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." u Yet fame deservM no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise...Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 страници
...private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since...in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, yet praise the judge. In Israel's court ne'er... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 страници
...private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known. Since...in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, yet praise the judge. In Israel's court ne'er... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 страници
...to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
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With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. 
