 | Godfrey B. Tangwa - 1996 - 158 sivua
...people consider lawyers, not without reason, as descendants of the ancient sophists "a society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black and black is white (according) as they are paid." (Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's... | |
 | Raymond Wolters - 1996 - 520 sivua
...decision reminded him of Jonathan Swift's description of lawyers — "a body of men among us. brought up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white."65 The defeat in Santa Clara County represented the... | |
 | Godfrey B. Tangwa - 1996 - 158 sivua
...society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black and black is white (according) as they are paid." (Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, London, Longman, 1972 p. 224). Do lawyers usually distort truth... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sivua
...Corleone, in The Godfather, bk. 1 , ch. 1 (1969). A favorite saying of Don Corleone. 4 I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the... | |
 | Evan Whitton - 1998 - 260 sivua
...lawyers, the judges really had no excuse. In 1726, Dean Swift described them as "a society of men . . . bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid". It will be recalled that... | |
 | Peter M. Tiersma - 1999 - 330 sivua
...the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels, written in the early part of the eighteenth century: "there was a Society of Men among us, bred up from their Youth...in the Art of proving by Words multiplied for the Purpose, that White is Black and Black is White, according as they are paid. To this Society all the... | |
 | Michael S. Moore - 2000 - 496 sivua
...Jonathan Swift's worries about the casuistry (purposive interpretation gone awry) of lawyers: There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid' (Swift, Travels by Lemuel... | |
 | Evelin E. Sullivan - 2002 - 358 sivua
...obfuscation to Swift's blunt assessment. There is, Gulliver tells his noble master in Houyhnhnmland, "a Society of Men among us, bred up from their Youth...in the Art of proving by Words multiplied for the Purpose, that White is Black, and Black is White, according as they are paid." Twentieth-century entries... | |
 | Martin Priestman - 2003 - 316 sivua
...tries to explain the current state of the law in Britain to his Houyhnhnm master: I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth...in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the... | |
 | Christopher Fox - 2003 - 306 sivua
...learning and subtlety enough to prove. . . that White was Black".17 Gulliver reports that "there was a Society of Men among us, bred up from their Youth...in the Art of proving by Words multiplied for the Purpose, that White is Black, and Black is White, according as they are paid" (PW xi: 248). Like Locke... | |
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there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. 
