 | Charles Fearne - Executory interests - 1795 - 606 pages
...read exprefled, in fo much energy of terms, by a great judge even of thefe times. THE DISCRETION OF A JUDGE IS THE LAW OF TYRANTS; IT IS ALWAYS UNKNOWN;...AND PASSIoN. IN THE BEST IT IS OFTENTIMES CAPRICE; IK THE WORST IT IS EVERY VICE, FoLLY AND PASSION TO WHICH HUMAN NATURE IS LIABLE. by Vide Lord Camden's... | |
 | Francis Wollaston - 1795 - 188 pages
...1763 ; and the latter was made a judge in 1770. a.grea a great man hath said, " THE LAW OF TYRANTS j " IT IS ALWAYS UNKNOWN; IT IS DIFFERENT " IN DIFFERENT MEN ; IT IS CASUAL, AND DE" PENDS UPON CONSTITUTION, TEMPER, AND " PASSION. IN THE BEST, IT IS OFTENTIMES " CAPRICE J IN THE... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1802 - 556 pages
...leave a rule inflexible, than permit it to be bent by the difcretion of a judge. The difcretion of a judge is the law of tyrants : it is always unknown: it is different in, different men : it is caiual, and depends upon conftitution, temper, and paffion. In the bed it is oftentimes caprice; in... | |
 | English literature - 1802 - 560 pages
...leave a rule inflexible, than permit it to be bent by the difcretion of a judge. The difcretion of a judge is the law of tyrants : it is always unknown: it is different ¡a different men : it is cafual, and depends upon conftitution, temper, and paflion. In the bed it... | |
 | Anthony Highmore - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - 1809 - 632 pages
...the rule inflexible, than permit it to be bent by the discretion of the judge. The discretion of the judge is the law of tyrants; it is always unknown;...in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion (o which human nature is liable! As lo the point, how far this interest is releasable; It is neither... | |
 | Anthony Highmore - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - 1809 - 648 pages
...judge is the law of tyrants; it is ilways unknown ; it is different in different men; it is •astial, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion;...the best, it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst, it is-every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable! As to the point, how far this interest... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1811 - 166 pages
...a rule inflexible, than to, permit it to he bent by the discretion of a judge. The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown...vice, folly and passion, to which human nature is liable." And when it is considered, that a society for supporting what are called the Civil Rights... | |
 | Michael Dodson - Judges - 1811 - 114 pages
...TYRANTS ,' " IT IS ALWAYS UNKNOWN; IT IS DIFFERENT " IN DIFFERENT MEN J IT IS CASUAL, AND DE" PENDS UPON CONSTITUTION, TEMPER, AND " PASSION. IN THE BEST,...VICE> " FOLLY, AND PASSION, TO WHICH HUMAN " NATURE is LIABLE." See lord Gamden's argument in the case of Doe v. Kersey, Pasch. 5 Geo, III. 1765, in. CB printed... | |
 | 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 - 1812 - 510 pages
...triumphantly quotes the saying of Lord Camden, ' that the discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants : in the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst,...vice, folly, and passion, to which human nature is liable.' But what does Dr. Daubeuey say to the acknowledged practice of admitting converts from among... | |
 | Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...triumphantly quotes the saying of Lord Camden. ' that the discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants:, in the best, it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst,...vice, folly, and passion, to which human nature is liable." But what does Dr. Daubeney say to the acknowledged practice of admitting converts from among... | |
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judge is the law of tyrants; it is always unknown; it is different in different men ; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human... 
