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" Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Thro' which a few, by wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame. "
Enoch Arden: &c - Page 85
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1865 - 119 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 126

1867 - 636 pages
...and precision of language, the disheartening labours of the law-student who toils — ' Mastering tho lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of...fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame.' (Ay liner's Field, p. 73.) Such disorder and complexity in a body of law can but result in uncertainty,...
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The Rose, the shamrock and the thistle, a magazine. Vol.1, June ..., Volume 6

1864 - 576 pages
...but we have yet to learn from Mr. Tennyson, that the moon is musical. Again, why should I mention : " Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless...of precedent, That wilderness of single instances." We thought that law was in itself a parlous mysterious thing, but the Laureate evidently determines...
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Poems of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...In phrases here and there at random, toil'd Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codcless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances,...wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth aud fame. The jests, that llash'd about the pleader's room, Lightning of the hour, the pun, the scurrilous...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 126

1867 - 608 pages
...disheartening labourof the law-student who toils — ' Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codcless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances,...fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame.' (Aylmer's Field, p. 73.) Such disorder and complexity in a body of law can but result in uncertainty,...
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The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 5-6

1867 - 832 pages
...of our law," he alludes to the unfairness of fortune in her favours and the uncertainty of success * Thro' which a few, by wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame. But the one vice so common to the present day on which Mr. Tennyson has spoken with the saddest enthusiasm,...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...nfAIcfu'. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. Trumbull, McFingal, in. 489. Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless...of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Through which a few by art or fortune led May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame. LEADEBS Tennyson,...
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Poems ...

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...blew • The rain of heaven, and their own bitter tears, Tears, and the careless rain of heaven, mixt Upon their faces, as they kiss'd each other In darkness,...That wilderness of single instances, Thro' which a fi'-w, by wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame. The jests, that flash'd about...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...blew; The rain of heaven, and their own bitter tears, Tears, and the careless rain of heaven, mixt Upon their faces, as they kiss'd each other In darkness,...The jests, that flash'd about the pleader's room, Lightuing of the hour, the pun, the scurrilous tale,— Old scandals buried now seven decades deep...
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Essays Upon the Form of the Law, Volume 737

Thomas Erskine Holland - 1870 - 242 pages
...labours of the law-student who toils — " Mastering the lawless science of onr law, That codelesa myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Thro' which a few, by wit or fortune led, Hay beat a pathway out to wealth and fame." (Aylmer's Field, p. 73.) Such disorder and complexity in...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 30

1885 - 550 pages
...lawless science of our law, The codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances Through which a few by wit or fortune led May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame." Our condition is worse than the condition iu England, since we have thirty-eight State courts of last...
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