 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1861 - 352 pages
...to be sought only by slow and painful prSgress. Error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;EI it hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and ocrchcs upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. — CUHRAN. 8. Accuracy of perception, and truthfulness... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1862 - 482 pages
...pleader, I should make a very idle display of profession, with very little information to those that I address, or benefit to those on whose behalf I have...perches upon assertion which it calls conclusion. [Here the Lord Chancellor moved to have the dumber cleared. After some time tin doors were opened,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1862 - 350 pages
...should surprise you in the act. — BAXTER. 7. Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress. Error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. • — 'CURKAN. 8. Accuracy of perception, and truthfulness in all the details' of statement, should... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1862 - 472 pages
...is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know also that error is in its nature ftsppant and compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." It was clear enough that, under the name of Sir Constantine Phipps, the chancellor was designated.... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Archives - 1864 - 236 pages
...TO BE BOUGHT ONLY BY SLOW AND PAINFUL PROGRESS : ERROR IS IN ITS NATURB FLIPPANT AND COMPENDIOUS J IT HOPS, WITH AIRY AND FASTIDIOUS LEVITY, OVER PROOFS AND ARGUMENTS, AND PEROHES UPON ASSERTION, WHICH IT CALLS CONCLUSION." JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN, Matter of tht Holla of Ireland.... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - Judges - 1870 - 654 pages
...large auditory, consisting of co-ordinate members, of whom the far greater number is not versed in law. I am aware, my Lords, that truth is to be sought only...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion.' It was thus that Currau's wrath, nursed through long years,... | |
 | 1871 - 756 pages
...great city, and addrees them in the hackneyed style of a pleader, I should make a very idle display, with very little information to those I address, or...levity over proofs and arguments, and perches upon assertions which it calls conclusion. It was clear enough that, under the name of Sir Constantino Phipps,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...large auditory, consisting of co-ordinate members, of whom the far greater number is not versed in law. I am aware, my Lords, that truth is to be sought only...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion." Here Here the Chancellor interposed again by moving that the... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pages
...large auditory, consisting of co-ordinate members, of whom the far greater number is not versed in law. I am aware, my Lords, that truth is to be sought only...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion.' Here the Chancellor interposed again by moving that the Council-chamber... | |
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I address, or benefit to those on whose behalf I have the honour to be heard. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and... 
