 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 Seiten
...procured by just and honest methods : the better to bring which about, very many men among us were bred up from their youth in the art of proving by...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. The greatness of these men's assurance and the boldness of their pretensions gained upon the opinion... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 Seiten
...that makes it hard for us to judge ants fairly. CLABENOE DAY, JB. * 514. LAWYERS I said, 'there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must... | |
 | J. Prinsen - 1925 - 558 Seiten
...gloeiende, bittere haat. Zoo bv wat hij aan de beeren paarden over de advocaterij vertelt : „There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must than hire another to defend my... | |
 | Hugh Kennedy Trevaskis - 1928 - 414 Seiten
...be procured by just and honest methods, the better to bring which about, very many men among us were bred up from their youth in the art of proving by...Black, and Black is White, according as they are paid. The greatness of these men's assurance and the boldness of their pretensions gained upon the opinion... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1913 - 550 Seiten
...the People. Dean Swift in describing the former class caused his famous character, Gulliver, to say: "There is a society of men among us, bred up from...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. lt is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that... | |
 | 1920 - 242 Seiten
...has been thought by others but not so sarcastically expressed : "Lawyers are a society of men bred from their youth in the art of proving by words, multiplied for the purpose, that white is black or black is white, according as they are paid." Of course this is good satire, but not all truth. It... | |
 | Jerome Frank - 1973 - 464 Seiten
...mild bitterness. Jonathan Swift was more vitriolic. He referred to lawyers as "a society of men . . . bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words, multiplied for the purpose" — and in "a jargon of their own that no other mortal can understand" — that "white is black, and... | |
 | James C. Freund - 1979 - 398 Seiten
...satirists. Witness Swift, in Gulliver's Travels , offering his lowly opinion of lawyers: "A society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving by...black and black is white according as they are paid." As quoted in Keefe, supra note 48, at 43. cause.52 Witness the following colloquy taken from the transcript... | |
 | Gerald Howson - 1985 - 390 Seiten
...employing some Advocates, in vain, upon some Injustices that had been done me ... I SAID there was a Society of Men among us, bred up from their Youth...this Society all the rest of the People are Slaves.' Thereafter, the Lost Property Office went from success to success. In 1720, Wild opened a second branch... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 Seiten
...hasn't got. Sir Dingwall Bateson (1898-1967) president of the Law Society, 1952-1953 A society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving by...black and black is white according as they are paid. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist There is the prostitute, one who lets out her body... | |
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. 
