 ... an odious, pettifogging trade. Prompt with demurrers, skillful in abatements, To circumvention trained, and bold in statements, Each villain's hireling, used by every knave, Of meanest wretches e'en a meaner slave, To rob too cowardly, too proud to...  The village; a poem. With an appendix - 42 ページEnoch Lincoln 著 - 1816 - 12 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | George Bancroft Griffith - 1888 - 870 ページ
...cowardly, too proud to steal. The pettifogger preys on public weal, And makes some Justice, a commissioned fool, For paltry aims a secret legal tool. Or deeper...larger fees, Performs by quibbles, sophistry and pleas. THE COUNTRY JUSTICE. Squire Quirk, the Justice, to dispense the laws, Sits in the pride of pow'r to... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1890 - 514 ページ
...a meaner slave, To rob too cowardly, too proud to steal, And makes some justice,— a commissioned fool, — For paltry aims a secret legal tool, Or...larger fees, Performs by quibbles, sophistry and pleas. This is severe enough, but there is much more to the same effect. If we are to suppose the satirist... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1890 - 504 ページ
...a meaner slave, To rob too cowardly, too proud to steal, And makes some justice, — a commissioned fool, — For paltry aims a secret legal tool, Or...larger fees, Performs by quibbles, sophistry and pleas. This is severe enough, but there is much more to the same effect. If we are to suppose the satirist... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1890 - 500 ページ
...a meaner slave, To rob too cowardly, too proud to steal, And makes some justice, — a commissioned fool, — For paltry aims a secret legal tool, Or...larger fees, Performs by quibbles, sophistry and pleas. This is severe enough, but there is much more to the same effect. If we are to suppose the satirist... | |
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