Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely, may be pursued too keenly, may cost too much ; and surely the meanness and the mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the general evil of infusing reserve... The Luzerne Legal Register - Page 341880Full view - About this book
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 584 pages
...unfairly, or gained by unfair means, not every channel is or ought to be open. Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely, may be pursued too...of infusing reserve and dissimulation, uneasiness and suspicion and fear into those communications which must take place, and which, unless in a condition... | |
| International law - 1848 - 468 pages
...proposed to act in the manner which Lord Eldon thought it right to' prohibit. Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely — may be pursued too...of infusing reserve and dissimulation, uneasiness, and suspicion, and fear, into those communications which must take place.Jmd which, unless in a condition... | |
| Law - 1848 - 1122 pages
...professed to act in the manner which Lord Eldon thought it right to prohibit. Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely, may be pursued too...of infusing reserve and dissimulation, uneasiness, and suspicion, and fear into those communications which must take place, and which, unless in a condition... | |
| Law - 1848 - 638 pages
...proposed to act, in the manner which Lord Eldon thought it right to prohibit. Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely — may be pursued too keenly — may cost too much. And rarely the meanness and the mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Sir John Peter De Gex, John Jackson Smale, Sir James Lewis Knight Bruce - Equity - 1849 - 840 pages
...right to prohibit. Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely — may be pursued (oo keenly — may cost too much. And surely the meanness...of infusing reserve and dissimulation, uneasiness, and suspicion, and fear, into those communications which must take place, and which, unless in a condition... | |
| John Peter De Gex, John Jackson Smale - Equity - 1849 - 846 pages
...proposed to act in the manner which Lord Eldon thought it right to prohibit Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely — may be pursued too...keenly — may cost too much. And surely the meanness 1846. and the mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the... | |
| Law - 1853 - 526 pages
...gained by unfair means—not every channel is or ought to he open to them. Truth, like all other ijood things, may be loved unwisely, may be pursued too...keenly, may cost too much; and surely the meanness and tlie mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the general... | |
| John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1865 - 666 pages
...Bruce said, " Truth, like all other good things' says he ' may be loved unwisely — may be pnreued too keenly — may cost too much. And surely the meanness and the mischief of prying into a roan's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the general evil of infusing reserve and... | |
| Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...act in the manner which Lord Eldon thought it right to prohibit. Truth, like all other good tilings, may be loved unwisely — may be pursued too keenly...prying into a man's confidential consultations with liis legal adviser, the general evil of infusing reserve and dissimulation, uneasiness and suspicion... | |
| Joseph Goodeve - Evidence (Law) - 1871 - 914 pages
...discussion, and conveyed in his usual happy language. " Truth, like all other good things," says he, " may be loved unwisely — may be pursued too keenly — may cost too much. And (1) 1 My I. ir <t Keen, p. 103. See also the remarks by Turner, VC, in Russell v. Jackson, 9 Hare,... | |
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