 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...either to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity • some allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and...virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery and court-shifts and tyrannous aphorisms appear to them the highest points of wisdom; instilling their... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 524 pages
...to an amhitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity : some allured to the trade of law,11 grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly...them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigous terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees : others betake them to state affairs with souls... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignornntly zealous divinity : some allured to the trade of law,11 grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly...which was never taught them, but on the promising arid pleasing thoughts of litigous terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees : others betake them to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...the case, than formerly. LORD MANSFIELD. Some are allured to law, not on the contemplation of equity, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms fat contentions, and flowing fees. MILTON. An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so... | |
 | Anthologies - 1878 - 728 pages
...I., Chap. 6. t Short History of the English People, Amer. Ed., P- 479speaks of those of his day as "grounding their purposes, not on the prudent and...litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees." Swift calls them " a society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied... | |
 | Anthologies - 1878 - 720 pages
...wits and satirists, but by men who weighed well their words. Milton speaks of those of his day as " grounding their purposes, not on the prudent and heavenly...thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fee?." Swift calls them " a society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1878 - 726 pages
...Amer. Ed., p. 479. speaks of those of his day as "grounding their purposes, not on the prudent and i heavenly contemplation of justice and equity. , which...litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees." Swift calls them " a society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...cither to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantlv zealous divinity ; some allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and...in virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery nnd courtshifts, and tyrannous aphorisms, appear to them the highest points of wisdom ; instilling... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...either to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity ; some allured to the trade of their verses. All the versification and little variety of Claudian is included within the compass whicn was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...either to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity; Mina allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes, not on the prudent...thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fee?; others betake tlr>m to state affairs, with souls so unprincipled in virtue and Troe generous... | |
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... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees... 
