For this reason, Equity practitioners are superior to the men in the courts below.
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
As they were passing through Madame Laîné's room, Ernestine paused and said to the hunchback: "I have always forgotten to tell you how I managed to leave the house unobserved the night I went to Madame Herbaut's party, M. de Maillefort.
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue
But the one supposes a case, in which all the servants receive equal privileges, and shows that even those of them who are faithful, may be unequal as to the amount of their success; the other supposes a case in which unequal privileges are bestowed upon the servants, and shows that when unequal gifts are employed with equal diligence, the approval is equal in the day of account.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
No religion that ever was preached on this earth of God's rounding ever proclaimed any salvation to sellers of bad goods.
— from Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by John Ruskin
{15} Senn’s Tumors Second Revised Edition Pathology and Surgical Treatment of Tumors.
— from Saunders' Books on Pathology, Physiology Histology, Embryology and Bacteriology by W.B. Saunders Company
Our municipal codes can be made to advance with equal steps with that of the nation, in discipline, in wisdom, and in lustre, if the state governments (as they ought in all honest policy) will only render equal patronage and security to the administration of justice.
— from Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin
The Austrian government moreover prohibits all free intercourse with foreign parts, and the old- fashioned system of taxation, senseless as many other existing regulations, entirely puts a stop to all free trade between Hungary and Austria.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel
The bourgeois may do what he will and the police remain ever polite, adhering strictly to the law, but the proletarian is roughly, brutally treated; his poverty both casts the suspicion of every sort of crime upon him and cuts him off from legal redress against any caprice of the administrators of the law; for him, therefore, the protecting forms of the law do not exist, the police force their way into his house without further ceremony, arrest and abuse him; and only when a working-men’s association, such as the miners, engages a Roberts, does it become evident how little the protective side of the law exists for the working-men, how frequently he has to bear all the burdens of the law without enjoying its benefits.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels
Nothing, therefore, can more contribute to the rendering England populous and strong than to have liberty upon a right footing, and our legal constitution firmly preserved.
— from Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by Petty, William, Sir
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