| 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...we will leave wholly out of the question. Your Lordship was talking, and so will I talk, of things. AS THEY ARE, and not as they ought to be; or as they are, from parrot-like habit, said to be. And, here, my Lord, I beg leave, once for all, to state,... | |
| 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...commendation on the other, to prescribe the limits of propriety. Every writer ought to describe men and things as they are, and not as they ought to be, or as he may wish them to be. Had this rule been faithfully observed, the world would have been spared much... | |
| 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...accordance with their supposition concerning the condition of the laws. All legislation should be based upon men as they are, and not as they ought to be, and it is not only an undoubted, but also an almost inevitable fact, that the people at large will... | |
| 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 1120
...and not from contumacy. NYSupr.Ct] SIEFKE v. THE MANHATTAN R Co. et al 355 court must act on things as they are, and not as they ought to be, or as the plaintiffs would like to have them. For these reasons, and on the ground of the inability of the... | |
| William Cobbett - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...we will leave wholly out of the question. Your lordship was talking, and so will I talk, of things AS THEY ARE, and not as they ought to be; or as they are, from parrot-like habit, said to be. And here, my lord, I beg leave, once for all, to state,... | |
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