LAW, LAWYERS-continued. He that with injury is griev'd, But lawyers are too wise a nation T expose their trade to disputation, In which, whoever wins the day, Butler, Hudibras. The whole profession's sure to pay. Butler, Hud. II. 3, 483. Law's the wisdom of all ages, And manag'd by the ablest sages, Who, tho' their bus'ness at the bar Be but a kind of civil war, In which th' engage with fiercer dudgeons, Butler, Hud. 3, 111. 439. They never manage the contest Just as they're set, too fast or slow; 'Tis ten to one that side is cast. The mighty Julius pleading at the bar, Butler. Butler, 2, 11. 359. Was greater than when thundering in the war, He conquer'd nations: 'tis of more renown To save a client than to storm a town. Lansdowne, Beauty and Law. I know you lawyers can, with ease, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretence. Gay, Fable, part 1. 2. 312 LAW, LAWYERS-LEARNING. LAW, LAWYERS-continued. There take, (says Justice,) take ye each a shell, We thrive at Westminster on fools like you: 'Twas a fat oyster-live in peace-adieu. Pope, (fr. Boileau). These Insnare the wretched in the toils of law, Thomson, Autumn, 1289. There was on both sides much to say: He heard it then, and kept his word, Long bills, and answers stuff'd with lies, For sixteen years the cause was spun, And then stood where it first begun. Dean Swift. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 386. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair, Honesty shines with great advantage there. Cowper, Hope, 401: He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smil'd, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother Abel. Coleridge, Devil's Walk, 1v, Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. Lines quoted in Latin by Sir Edward Coke. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Sir W. Jones, Ode in Imitation of Alcaus. Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. Trumbull, McFingal, III. 489. Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Through which a few by art or fortune led May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame. LEADERS. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. That odd impulse, which, in wars and creeds, Makes men, like cattle, follow him who leads. Byron, Sh. Mid. N. v. L. LEARNING. 318 LEARNING-continued. List his discourse of war, and you shall hear Familiar as his garter. Learning is an addition beyond Nobility of birth: honour of blood, Proceeding thus with vast delight, Sh. Hen. V. 1. 1. J. Shirley. Butler, 1. 111. 1339. He spells and gnaws from left to right. Prior, Alma, 2. Pope. Churchill, Rosciad, 591. Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. Voracious learning, often over-fed, This forager on other's wisdom, leaves Her native farm, her reason, quite untill'd. Young, N. T. v. Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords Wits are a despicable race of men, Young, N. T. If they confine their talents to the pen; And play the fool because they're men of sense. Young, Epistle to Mr. Pope, II. How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart! Young, Last Day, 11. 314 LEARNING-LETTERS, LETTER-WRITING. LEARNING-continued. Learning itself, received into a mind Au reste, (as we say,) the young lad's well enough, Cowper Only talks much of Athens, Rome, virtue, and stuff. Moore, Fudge Family. Learning unrefin'd, That oft enlightens to corrupt the mind. Falconer, Shipwreck. LEGITIMACY. Sirrah, your brother is legitimate; Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him: That marry wives. Sh. K. John, 1. 1. And if she did play false, the fault was her's; LELY, (Sir Peter). Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. Pope, Aug. 1. 149. Sh. M. of Ven. III. 2. Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! Read o'er this: And after, this; and then to breakfast, with Let us see Sh. Hen. VIII. III. 2. 'Leave, gentle wax; and manners, blame us not; To know our enemies' minds, we'd rip their hearts; Their papers is more lawful. Sh. Lear, Iv. 6. LETTERS, LETTER-WRITING-LIBERTY 315 Butler, Hud. LETTERS, LETTER-WRITING-continued. Letters admit not of a half-renown; Pope, Eloisa, 50. They give you nothing, or they give a crown. But what did honour to the name of man. Young, Epis. to I've only room for-your's sincerely. Good bye-my paper's out so nearly, [Pope, 202. T. Moore, Fudge Family in Paris, 6. He that's liberal LIBERALITY. To all alike, may do a good by chance, But never out of judgment. LIBERTINE. Beaumont and Fletcher. His addiction was to courses vain; His companies unletter'd, rude, and shallow; His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports; And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. A show of liberty, Sh. Hen. v. 1. 1. Sh. As Y. L. 11. 7. When we have lost the substance, is best kept, By seeming not to understand those faults, May, Cleopatra. In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side; This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask, Content, though blind-had I no better guide. Milton, to C. Skinner. License they mean when they cry liberty. Milton, Sonnet, 12. |