 Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation ; Have equal power to adjourn, Appoint appearance and return ; 320 And make as nice distinctions serve To split a case, as those that carve, Invoking cuckolds...  Bell's Edition - Seite 143von John Bell - 1797Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Butler, Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1893 - 396 Seiten
...games unlawful, And who fill'd pots of ale but half-full ? And have no pow'r at all, nor shift, sis To help itself at a dead lift ? Why should not Conscience...Appoint appearance and return ; 320 And make as nice distinctions serve To split a case, as those that carve, Invoking cuckolds' names, hit joints ? Why... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 Seiten
...break an oath he never made ?" In point of casuistry, also, the following are to be remembered : " Why should not conscience have vacation As well as other courts o' the nation ? " For witnesses like watches go, Just as they're set, too fast or slow. " And though all... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...which, when once they are imbrangled, The more they stir, the more they're tangled. BUTLER : Hudibras. Why should not conscience have vacation, As well as...equal power to adjourn, Appoint appearance and return ? BUTLER : Hudibras. What's justice to a man, or laws, That never comes within their claws ? BUTLER:... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...consciences that will stretch. b. BDHTON — Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. III. Sec. IV. Memh. 2. Subsect. 3. g retxirn ? c. BCTLEB— Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto II. L. 317. A quiet conscience makes one so serene !... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 Seiten
...hundreds on the place Were slain outright, and many a face Retrenched of nose, and eyes, and beard, ' Why should not conscience have vacation As well as...equal power to adjourn, Appoint appearance and return ? And make as nice distinctions serve To split a case, as those that carve, Invoking cuckolds' names,... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 Seiten
...many a face Retrenched of nose, and eyes, and beard, To maintain what their sect averred. . . . r ' Why should not conscience have vacation As well as...equal power to adjourn, Appoint appearance and return ? And make as nice distinctions serve To split a case, as those that carve, Invoking cuckolds' names,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...clapper-clawing. Line 7s. For truth is precious und divine, — Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Line 257. Why should not conscience have vacation As well as other courts o' th' nation ? Line sn. 1 Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden- lamps in old sepulchral urns. COWPEH:... | |
 | Eden Phillpotts - 1904 - 482 Seiten
...know. I could mention a few classical lies that have helped to make the world what it is to-day — " ' Why should not conscience have vacation As well as other courts o' the nation ? ' " "You jest to ask such a question, or you mistake me, Mr. Norcot." "'Tis easy to understand... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...; out of which 1 find no way, from deep to deeper plung'd ! 757 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. x. Line 842 Why should not conscience have vacation, As well as...power to adjourn, Appoint appearance, and return? 758 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 317. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of... | |
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