 | William Shakespeare - 1843
...heart : If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right,...little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will. Por. It must not be: there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'T will be recorded... | |
 | Denis Creagh Moylan - 1843 - 48 pages
...GREAT BRITAIN. BY D. CREAGH MOYLAN, OF LINCOLN'S-INN, BARRISTER AT LAW. " A ml I beaeecH you. Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right,...little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will." SHAKESPEARE. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: II. BUTTERWORTH, FLEET STREET. PRINTED BY JAMES & LUKE J. HANSARD,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843
...: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth.a And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right...little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will. Par. It must not be ; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'T will be recorded... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 88 pages
...If this will not suffice , it must appear That malice bears down truth : and, I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right...little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. Par. It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'T will be recorded... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1964 - 245 pages
...quotation begins with one of the characters, Bassanlo, speaking as follows: And I beseech you wrest once the law to your authority; to do a great right, do a little wrong. But Portia, the heroine, answers: It must not be * * • twill be recorded for a precedent, and many... | |
 | Keir Elam, William Shakespeare - 1984 - 339 pages
...of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. Bass. . . . And / beseech you Wrest once the law to your authority, To do a great right,...little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. Por. It must not be, there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established. At this, Shylock,... | |
 | Robert M. Cover - 1975 - 322 pages
...the order of law. PART II RULES, ROLES, AND REBELS: Nature's Place Disputed And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority; To do a great right, do a little wrong. It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established; T will be recorded for... | |
 | Thomas S. Kane - 1994 - 327 pages
...people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. Montesquieu Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong. Shakespeare A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes,... | |
 | Shunʼichi Noguchi, Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - 1993 - 273 pages
...heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you Wrest once the law to your authority; To do a great right,...do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his wil1. (IV. i. 205-13) Iconographically, Truth's enemies are Envy and Fraud,12 and the 'malice' in Bassanio's... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 501 pages
...heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right,...little wrong. And curb this cruel devil of his will. PORTIA: It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established. Twill be recorded... | |
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I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong,... 
