 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 536 pages
...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 ; And curb this cruel devil of his will. Por. It must not be ; there is no power in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...hands, my head, my heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth : and, do, in my mind. Mrs. Ford. Well, I do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. Par. It must not be. There is no power in Venice... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...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 : And curb this cruel devil of his will. Par. — It must not be ; there is no power... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1951 - 362 pages
...Madison in No. 46 of the Federalist. 17 Cf. Bassanio's plea to Portia, to which she did not listen: "And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong." Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Sc. 1, 1. 210. "There is no vice so simple but assumes... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1859 - 480 pages
...hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it inust appear That malice bears down truth and 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 will. Portia. It rnust not be ; there is no power... | |
 | United States. 88th Cong., 2d sess., 1964 - 1964 - 262 pages
...lost on us today. The 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,... | |
 | Robert M. Cover - Law - 1975 - 340 pages
...order of right and 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... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...this strict court 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, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. Por. It must not be, there is no power in Venice... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...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, And curb this cruel devil of his wil1. (IV. i. 205-13) Iconographically, Truth's enemies... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - Law and literature - 1996 - 524 pages
...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. And curb this cruel devil of his will. PORTIA: It must not be. There is no power in... | |
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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 will. 
