 | John Elihu Hall - 1809 - 538 síður
...and had rather be dumb, than suffer his tongue to pimp for injustice, or club his parts, to bolster up a cheat with the legerdemain of lawcraft. He is...afterwards a backhanded bribe from the defendant; nor so doubletongued, that one may purchase his pleading, and the other at the same, or a larger price,... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1824 - 444 síður
...study, and the Dogs' eloquence, and disdains to grow great by crimes, or club his parts to bolster up a cheat with the legerdemain of Law-craft ; he...Janus, to take a retaining fee from the Plaintiff, and afterward a back-handed fee from the Defendant; nor so double-tongued, that one may purchase his pleading,... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 338 síður
...pimp- for injustice, or club his parts to bolster up a cheat with the legerdemain of l»vrcraft. " He is not faced like Janus, to take a retaining fee from plaintiff, and afterwards a backhanded bribe from the defendant, nor so doubletongued, that one may... | |
 | 1912 - 406 síður
...; and had rather be dumb than suffer his tongue to pimp for injustice, or club his parts to bolster up a cheat with the legerdemain of lawcraft. He is...afterwards a back-handed bribe from the defendant : nor so double tongued, that one may purchase his pleading, and the other at the same, or a larger price,... | |
 | 1825 - 938 síður
...purposes, and had rather be dumb than suffer his tongue to pimp for injustice, or club his parts to bolster up a cheat with the legerdemain of lawcraft. " He...not faced like Janus, to take a retaining fee from plaintiff, and afterwards a backhanded bribe from the defendant, nor so doubletongued, that one may... | |
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He has more reverence for his profession, than to debauch it to unrighteous purposes; and had rather be dumb, than suffer his tongue to pimp for injustice, or club his parts, to bolster up a cheat with the legerdemain of lawcraft. He is not faced like... 