 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pàgines
...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...deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, hut praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abelhdin With more discerning eyes, or hands... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pàgines
...thom. Brou-n. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, When 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. Dryden. The man who pauses in the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand — the first step engulphs... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pàgines
...their own \ Yet fame dcserv'd no enemy can gruilgp ; 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 despatch, and easy of access. Oh \ had he been... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pàgines
...sought the storms. And again, at the close of the same passage, there is direct testimony to worth — Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean. Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swift of despatch and easy of access. Shaftesbury was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pàgines
...private crimes ! How safe is treason, and how sacreJTH^ Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since...the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin L •. With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress... | |
 | 1855 - 834 pàgines
...Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own I Vet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courte ne'er sat an Л belli din With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribcd, unsought,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1855 - 286 pàgines
...of the writs issued durIt were, however, unfair to omit the praiae allotted to him by an enemy : — In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean : ITnbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. 1 Compare James,... | |
 | Robert Richard Pearce - 1855 - 488 pàgines
...resignation of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, he was appointed Lord Chancellor. Dryden says of him : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access." For his opposition... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 pàgines
...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...we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts nu'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pàgines
...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...fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman wo abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin . •• With more discerning... | |
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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. 
