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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 15
by James Boswell - 1786 - 442 pages
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Cases and Other Authorities on Legal Ethics

George Purcell Costigan - 1917 - 656 pages
...talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were It judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.' β€” This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity...
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The Young Man and the Law

Simeon Eben Baldwin - 1919 - 216 pages
...talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Cicero, in discussing the same question, speaks with more hesitation : " This precept...
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Johnson Club Papers

Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 pages
...talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Is it not right then to assert not only that Johnson's mind was that of a lawyer in the...
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Johnson Club Papers

Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 pages
...undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a 132 trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Is it not right then to assert not only that Johnson's mind was that of a lawyer in the...
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Canadian ..., Volume 6, Part 1921

Canadian Bar Association - 1922 - 392 pages
...talents than by chances. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Now, ladies and gentlemen, in one or two concluding words β€”for I have detained you a...
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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal ...

Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 pages
...talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.' β€” This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 57

1908 - 544 pages
...talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were Just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...claim, though were it judicially examined it might bo found a very Just claim." 112 CENTRAL LAW JOURNAL. 113 When Boswell was thinking of Joining the...
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Law Notes, Volume 25

1921 - 334 pages
...talents than by chances. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.' " β€” Canada Law Journal. "An army is not a deliberative body. It is the executive arm....
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Wit and Wisdom: A Public Affairs Miscellany

Colin Bingham - 1982 - 376 pages
...for himself, if he could. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim. SAMUEL JOHNSON, AS REPORTED BY BOSWELL My noble and learned friend, Lord Brougham, whose...
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The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal, Volume 37

1903 - 960 pages
...talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though were it judiciously examined it might be found a very just claim." When Boswell was thinking of joining the...
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