Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised ' than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Bacon's Essays - Page 91by Francis Bacon - 1881Full view - About this book
| Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...not jus dare ; to interpret law, not to make law, or give law. Lord Bacon has somewhere said, that judges ought to be more learned than witty; more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident ; and that above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Judge Neilson satisfies... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...Rome, which, under pretext of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter, and to pro- 5 nounce that which they do not find, and by show of...their portion, and proper virtue. Cursed (saith the i0 law) is he that remove th the landmarh. The mi slayer of a mere-stone is to blame. But it is the... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...which, under precept of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter; and to pronounce that which they do not find, and by show of antiquity...things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. . . . The principal duly of a judge is to suppress force and fraud ; whereof force is the more pernicious... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...which, under pretext of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter, and to pronounce that which they do not find, and by show of antiquity...than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised6 than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. " Cursed,"... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...which, under pretext of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter, and to pronounce that which they do not find, and, by show of antiquity, to introduce novelty." What gravity and wisdom is there in the remark that, " One foul sentence doth more hurt, than many... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 pages
...Scripture doth not stick to add and alter ; and to pronounce that which they do not find ; and by shew of antiquity to introduce novelty. Judges ought to...portion and proper virtue. Cursed (saith the law) is he tliat removeth the landmark. The mislayer of a mere-stone is to blame. But it is the unjust judge that... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...which, under pretext of exposition of scripture, doth not stick to add and alter ; and to pronounce that which they do not find ; and by show of antiquity...introduce novelty. Judges ought to be more learned than ""tty ; more reverend than plausible; and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity... | |
| James Paterson - Civil rights - 1877 - 538 pages
...which, under pretext of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter :. and to pronounce that which they do not find, and, by show of antiquity, to introduce novelty." — Bac. Ess. 56. " Can the twelve judges extrajudicially make a thing law to bind the. is the existing... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1878 - 790 pages
...Scripture doth not stick to add and alter; and to pronounce that which they do not find; and by shew of antiquity to introduce novelty. Judges ought to...portion and proper virtue. Cursed (saith the law) is fie that removeth the landmark. The mislayer of a mere-stone is to blame. But it is the unjust judge... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...Scripture, doth not stick2 to add and alter, and to pronounce3 that which they do not find, and by show4 of antiquity to introduce novelty. Judges ought to be more learned than witty,5 more reverend than plausible,6 and more advised7 than confident. Above all things, integrity... | |
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