Adventures of an Attorney in Search of Practice, Том 1Saunders and Otley, 1839 - 407 стор. |
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Сторінка 88 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Сторінка 253 - Attorney" agrees with us in both these points: "Of all witnesses in an honest cause, an intelligent child is the best; of all witnesses in any cause, a woman is the worst, unless she happens to be very pretty and engaging, for then she will answer the purpose, whatever it be, most successfully.
Сторінка 68 - The casualties and accidents of litigation are so frequent, and sometimes so expensive, that they occasion more expenditure than even the whole of the proceedings that go on in the accustomed course; and if...
Сторінка 1 - ... and start with all the magnificence of a house, I had not patience to wait till I could find one, but engaged a first floor over a shop, bought a desk and half-a-dozen chairs second-hand, incarcerated the first stray lad I could catch, in a dark cell eight feet by six, tied up old precedents with new tape, and then painted my name gorgeously on the door posts with all the dignity of " Mr. Sharpe, Solicitor,
Сторінка 6 - Oh yes ! he told the jury so of course, and they were fools enough to believe him ; but did he tell you so, at your consultation ?" " He said nothing at the consultation ! he never once asked me to sit down; but he cocked his eye at the attorney, nodded to the other counsel, poked the fire, and I saw at once it was all right. I paid two guineas or more for that cock of the eye; but it don't matter for that, so long as that rascal can't rob me and laugh at me to boot; and he would have done both,...
Сторінка 151 - ... gifted with a cheerful disposition and marked, not by fastidious delicacy of mind, but by that enlarged honesty which is usually intended by " honourable principle," I should consider that he possessed the finest qualities for a useful attorney.
Сторінка 68 - ONE axiom on the question of costs is so obviously true, that we cannot avoid surprise at our clients so often losing sight of it. If they wish only to pay their attorney like a shoe•black, they will soon have only shoe-blacks for their attornies.
Сторінка 197 - ... hall, and whose characters would compel us to count our spoons, if by any accident they gained admission there. It is but too true that we have among us a large body of adventurers, who have little education, less principle, and neither capital nor connexion.
Сторінка 196 - ... great step in life, a sort of gentility of station, in the estimate of the lower ranks of shopkeepers and mechanics; nor does it require any great outlay of money to give a son a title to the name, provided no lavish expenditure has been made in his previous education. Let it not be supposed that...
Сторінка 194 - There is scarcely any important transaction in which a merchant can engage that does not more or less require the counsel of his solicitor...