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" With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! "
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Page 261
by Horace Walpole - 1806
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The Tewkesbury yearly register and magazine [ed. by J. Bennett].

James Bennett - 1840 - 494 pages
...commanding orator, and the upright judge ;" and these sentiments are echoed even by Dryden himself — " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge : " The statesman...praise the judge. " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin " With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, " Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress...
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The Grandeur of the Law: Or, the Legal Peers of England

Edward Foss - 1843 - 252 pages
...severity of his original description of the Earl's character by adding these lines : " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress,...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 But that thou over-heard'st, ere Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress,...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 628 pages
...Erroneous opinion that ShadesJudge. Character in Absalom and Achitophel. Purchased by a favour to Dryden. " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman...praise the judge ; In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abathdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unbought, the wretched to redress,...
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The North British review

1845 - 672 pages
...pleasant. With one slight variation we might almost adopt Dryden's celebrated lines, " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge, In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, I'nbribed. unsought, the wretched to redress,...
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The North British Review, Volume 2

English literature - 1845 - 758 pages
...pleasant. With one slight variation we might almost adopt Dryden's celebrated lines, " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge, In Israe1's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought,...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...trill ,' Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'cl no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress...
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Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 pages
...county of Bucks. This estate, situated nearly on the border of Northamptonshire, about six miles * " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge : In Isr'els courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought,...
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