Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench, and Woolsack, Том 3J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 |
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Сторінка 258 - Wherever he was judge, he never forgot that he was also counsel. The criminal before him was always sure he stood before his country, and, in a sort, a parent of it : the prisoner knew, that though his spirit was broken with guilt, and incapable of language to defend itself, all would be gathered from him which could conduce to his safety ; and that his judge would wrest no law to destroy him, nor conceal any that could save him.
Сторінка 259 - That certainly would Verus. I have seen an old trial where he sat Judge on two of them; one was called Tricktrack, the other Tear-shift : one was a learned judge of sharpers; the other the quickest of all men at finding out a wench. Trick-track never spared a pickpocket, but was a companion to cheats; Tear-shift would make compliments to wenches of quality, but certainly commit poor ones.
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