 I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.  Albany Law Journal - Page 2491881Full view - About this book
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 pages
...that makes it hard for us to judge ants fairly. CLABENOE DAY, JB. * 514. LAWYERS I said, 'there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my... | |
 | J. Prinsen - English fiction - 1925 - 558 pages
...gloeiende, bittere haat. Zoo bv wat hij aan de beeren paarden over de advocaterij vertelt : „There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my... | |
 | Hugh Kennedy Trevaskis - Land tenure - 1928 - 414 pages
...be procured by just and honest methods, the better to bring which about, very many men among us were bred up from their youth in the art of proving by...Black, and Black is White, according as they are paid. The greatness of these men's assurance and the boldness of their pretensions gained upon the opinion... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - Bar associations - 1913 - 550 pages
...Dean Swift in describing the former class caused his famous character, Gulliver, to say: "There is a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...black, and black is white, according as they are paid. lt is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that... | |
 | Law reviews - 1920 - 242 pages
...has been thought by others but not so sarcastically expressed : "Lawyers are a society of men bred from their youth in the art of proving by words, multiplied for the purpose, that white is black or black is white, according as they are paid." Of course this is good satire, but not all truth. It... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association. Meeting - Bar associations - 1925 - 208 pages
...the lapse of centuries, the witty and vitriolic Dean Swift to paint lawyers as "a society of men bred from their youth in the art of proving by words, multiplied...black and black is white, according as they are paid. ' ' Jeremy Bentham believed that the practice of the law tended to destroy in the advocate the continual... | |
 | Jerome Frank - Law - 1973 - 464 pages
...mild bitterness. Jonathan Swift was more vitriolic. He referred to lawyers as "a society of men . . . bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words, multiplied for the purpose" — and in "a jargon of their own that no other mortal can understand" — that "white is black, and... | |
 | James C. Freund - Law - 1979 - 398 pages
...satirists. Witness Swift, in Gulliver's Travels , offering his lowly opinion of lawyers: "A society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving by...black and black is white according as they are paid." As quoted in Keefe, supra note 48, at 43. cause.52 Witness the following colloquy taken from the transcript... | |
 | Gerald Howson - History - 1985 - 390 pages
...employing some Advocates, in vain, upon some Injustices that had been done me ... I SAID there was a Society of Men among us, bred up from their Youth...Black, and Black is White, according as they are paid. To this Society all the rest of the People are Slaves.' Thereafter, the Lost Property Office went from... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...hasn't got. Sir Dingwall Bateson (1898-1967) president of the Law Society, 1952-1953 A society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving by...black and black is white according as they are paid. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist There is the prostitute, one who lets out her body... | |
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