 If, by a superiority of attention, of knowledge, of skill, and a better method of communication, he has the advantage of his adversary, it is an advantage to which he is entitled. There must always be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better...  The Port Folio - Page 4971824Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1896 - 866 pages
...There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes until they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim,... | |
 | William Van Ness Bay - Biography & Autobiography - 1878 - 1026 pages
...There must always be some advantage, on one side or the other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were...judicially examined it might be found a very just claim." These views of Dr. Johnson cannot, in our judgment, be successfully controverted. An experience of... | |
 | William Van Ness Bay - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1878 - 640 pages
...There must always be some advantage, on one side or the other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were...no causes till they were sure they were just, a man 548 BENCH AND BAK Of MISSOURI. might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though were... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 544 pages
...There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were...repressed a too refined scrupulosity of conscience. ' Emigration was at this time a common topic of discourse. Dr. Johnson regretted it as hurtful to human... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 814 pages
...There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were...practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too ref1ned scrupulosity of conscience. Emigration was at this time a common topic of discourse. Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 454 pages
...There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were...repressed a too refined scrupulosity of conscience. Emigration was at this time a common topic of discourse. Dr. Johnson regretted it as hurtful to human... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 pages
...There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were...repressed a too refined scrupulosity of con.science. Emigration was at this time a common topic of discourse. Dr. Johnson regretted it as hurtful to human... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pages
...There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were...repressed a too refined scrupulosity of conscience. Emigration was at this time a common topic of discourse. Dr. Johnson regretted it as hurtful to human... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 494 pages
...«. CHIEF BARON otu>e. 181 advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake DO causes till they were sore they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his... | |
 | JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...There must always be some advantage, on one side or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. If lawyers were...repressed a too refined scrupulosity of conscience. Emigration was at this time a vommon topic of discourse. Dr. Johnson regretted it as hurtful to human... | |
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