 | John Timbs - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...summary method of procedure originated from merciful motives : — " I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw. And sit in judgment after. At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such As it deserves no laughter. " They... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...Jeddart justice' of Scotland, or the 'Lynch law' of America — ' I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ' — • was due, no doubt, to the summary and severe punishments of both forest and stannary courts.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...Jeddart justice ' of Scotland, or the ' Lynch law ' of America — ' I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ' — was due, no doubt, to the summary and severe punishments of both forest and stannary courts.... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...Mr Browne,2 and inserted in Mr Grose's Local Proverbs ; — " I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But since I find the reason 's such, That it deserves no laughter.... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...Mr Browne,2 and inserted in Mr Grose's Local Proverbs : — " I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But since I find the reason 's such, That it deserves no laughter.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...Devonshire , a burlesque copy of verses on this town begins — " I oft have heard of Lydford Law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." WESTCOTT'S History of Devonshire. My present country residence is in the immediate neighborhood of... | |
 | 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...haste and try at leisure." Lydford law is thus aptly defined: "I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." But no matter how it may intertwine and commingle with the records of the mob family, and no matter... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...the character given to it. The date of this piece is probably 1644. OFT had heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. At first I wondered at it much, And now I find their reason such, That it deserves no laughter. They... | |
 | John Smyth (of Royston, Herts.) - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 132
...a pinch, Should pass them red-handed to " Judge Lynch." " I've of ttimes heard of Lydf ord law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wonder'd at it much, But, since, I've found the matter such That it deserves no laughter.... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 160
...Browne refers in his amusing stanzas in derogation of Lydford : " I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. At first I wondered at it much, But now I find their reason such That it deserves no laughter." The... | |
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I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter. 
