 | John Philpot Curran - 1862 - 482 pages
...to be heard. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know, also, that error is in its nature flippant and...perches upon assertion which it calls conclusion. [Here the Lord Chancellor moved to have the dumber cleared. After some time tin doors were opened, and Mr.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 350 pages
...should surprise you in the act. — BAXTER. 7. Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress. Error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. • — 'CURKAN. 8. Accuracy of perception, and truthfulness in all the details' of statement, should... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1862 - 472 pages
...is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know also that error is in its nature ftsppant and compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." It was clear enough that, under the name of Sir Constantine Phipps, the chancellor was designated.... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1864 - 236 pages
...TO BE BOUGHT ONLY BY SLOW AND PAINFUL PROGRESS : ERROR IS IN ITS NATURB FLIPPANT AND COMPENDIOUS J IT HOPS, WITH AIRY AND FASTIDIOUS LEVITY, OVER PROOFS AND ARGUMENTS, AND PEROHES UPON ASSERTION, WHICH IT CALLS CONCLUSION." JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN, Matter of tht Holla of Ireland.... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1870 - 654 pages
...versed in law. I am aware, my Lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion.' It was thus that Currau's wrath, nursed through long years,... | |
 | 1871 - 756 pages
...to be heard. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know, also, that error is in its nature flippant and...levity over proofs and arguments, and perches upon assertions which it calls conclusion. It was clear enough that, under the name of Sir Constantino Phipps,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 pages
...versed in law. I am aware, my Lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion." Here Here the Chancellor interposed again by moving that the... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pages
...versed in law. I am aware, my Lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion.' Here the Chancellor interposed again by moving that the Council-chamber... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 456 pages
...versed in law. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion.' Here the Chancellor interposed again by moving that the council-chamber... | |
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I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches upon assertion, which... 
