 | John Gay - 1796 - Liczba stron: 284
...TheLifeof John Gay . .......... ... 97 FABLES. PART THE SECOND. FABLE I. THE DOG AND THE FOX. TO A LAWYER. I KNOW you LAWYERS can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour ev'ry client ; That 'tis... | |
 | John Gay, Edward Moore - 1800 - Liczba stron: 260
...aud • a sincere lover of his country. » FABLE I. • THE DOG AND THE FOX. To a Lawyer. A Know yon lawyers can, with ease. Twist words and meanings as...language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour ev'ry client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make ont. either side's pretence. j;'... | |
 | John Gay - 1806 - Liczba stron: 178
...to be printed from the originals in tue AuUor'i own hand-writing. THE DOG AND TUE FOX. TO A. LAWYER. I KNOW you Lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and...language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client ; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretence. When... | |
 | John Gay - 1816 - Liczba stron: 174
...just in view. e'f. END OF THE FIRST PART PART THE SECOND. FABLE I. The Dog and tlie Fox. TO A LAWYER. I KNOW you Lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please ; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will hend to favour ev'ry client ; That 'tis... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Liczba stron: 270
...to be printed from the originals in the Author's own handwriting. THE DOG AND THE FOX. TO A LAWYER. I KNOW you Lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the... | |
 | John Gay - 1826 - Liczba stron: 376
...printed from the originals in the author's own hand- writing;. FABLE I. The Dog and the Fox. To a Lawyer. I KNOW you Lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please ; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour ev'ry client; That 'tis... | |
 | 1837 - Liczba stron: 646
...an inconsistency of which an ex-Chancellor would alone be unconscious ; for, as Gay has sung — " I know you lawyers can with ease Twist words and meanings as you please, And language, by your skill made pliant, Can bend to favour every client." In confirmation,... | |
 | John Gay - 1838 - Liczba stron: 254
...END OP THE FIRST PART. THE SECOND PART. FABLES. PART II. FABLE I. THE DOG AND THE FOX. TO A LAWYER. I KNOW you Lawyers can, with ease, 'Twist words and meanings as you please ; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour ev'ry client ; That 'tis... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1873 - Liczba stron: 566
...but Lawyer» at their ease Twist words and numbers as they plcaee." (as given in the Standard}, hut " I know you Lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please." We moke excuses for some persons, who have no hooks of reference, hut you have, douhtless,... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - Liczba stron: 466
...discipline, and pliant to reason , when at first it was most easy to be bowed. (Locke's Thoughts.) I know you Lawyers can with ease Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bead to favour ev'ry client; That 'tis the... | |
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I KNOW you Lawyers can, with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretence. When you peruse the clearest... 
