“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think. Let them but once clearly perceive thatContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House””
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Passage of the Day: Charles Dicken’s “Bleak House”
“Wintry morning looking with dull eyes and sallow face upon the neighbourhood of Leicester Square finds its inhabitants unwilling to get out of bed. Many of them are not early risers at the best of times, being birds of the night who roost when the sun is high are wide awake and keen for preyContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Charles Dicken’s “Bleak House””
Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House”: A Sarcastic Poke at the Law
“Equity sends questions to law, law sends questions back to equity: law finds it can’t do this, equity finds it can’t do that: neither can so much as say it can’t do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and soContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House”: A Sarcastic Poke at the Law”
Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”
“’Quite!’ said Longarine. “I’m sure that what you say is true. The fact is that every man who’s ever wanted to be my devoted servant has always started by declaring that my life, my welfare and my honour were all he truly desired. But in the end it’s only their own interests that count, onlyContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron””
Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) “The Heptameron”
“What I mean Hircan is this. If love is based on a woman’s, charm and favours, and if our aim is merely pleasure, ambition or profit, then such a love can never last. For if the whole foundation on which our love is based should collapse then love will fly from us and there willContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) “The Heptameron””
Passage of the Day: William Thackery’s “Vanity Fair”
William Thackeray (1811-1863) was at one point as popular as Charles Dickens. Vanity Fair was, as common in Britain, published in serialized format between 1847-48 and was a wickedly satirical look at the English upper classes full of louts, buffoons, fortune hunters and a crumbling aristocracy “When men of a certain sort, ladies, are inContinue reading “Passage of the Day: William Thackery’s “Vanity Fair””
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