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Hard cases, it is said, make bad law. - [Law] Lord Tenterden, the celebrated judge, expired with these words on his lips, "Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict." - [Habit] So essential did I consider an index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a book without an index of the privilege of copyright, and, moreover, to subject him for his offense to a pecuniary penalty. - Live of the Chief Justices of England (preface to Vol. III) [Indexes] Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave. - Lives of Chief Justices (vol. II, p. 418) [Slavery] Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd. - Pleasures of Hope (pt. I) [Stars] In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere That gems the starry girdle of the year. - Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 194) [Stars] And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. - The Soldier's Dream [Stars]
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