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Updated: May 25, 2025
It seemed an unspeakable smallness in a man of such high place in the State, whose hand had tied and untied myriad knots of political and court intrigue, that he should stoop to a game which any pettifogging hanger-on might play-and reap scorn in the playing.
The Thornlys have been yeomen of this parish ever since the time of Elizabeth more shame to you for forcing the last of the race to seek his bread elsewhere; and if you can find such a name as Lynfield amongst 'em, I'll give you leave to turn me into a pettifogging lawyer that's all. Saunderses, and Symondses, and Stokeses, and Mays, you'll find in plenty, but never a Lynfield.
Charles II., at the Restoration, ought probably to have sided with the milder party, some of whom were anxious to see their fierce brethren banished to Orkney, out of the way. But Charles's motto was 'Never again, and by a pettifogging fraud he reintroduced bishops without the hated liturgy.
He sat up late in his room at night, talking and attempting to amuse him. He even purchased a few amateur specifics; and finally, when the boy was as ill as ill could be, called in a pettifogging practitioner, who might be trusted to bungle the case. "Regular bad case," said that learned gentleman, after the third or fourth visit. "May last a week with care."
"This is our affair, Colonel Raynal. You have no command in this army." "I beg your pardon, sir, I have yours." "Not till to-morrow." "Why, you would not take such a pettifogging advantage of an old comrade as that." "Tell him the day ends at twelve o'clock," said one of the colonels interested by this strange strife.
The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries. The bill went in and on its way and that night the capital buzzed with the discussion of it. Harlan Thornton spent half the night at the telegraph-office, his mind intent on something far from prospective legislation. But no word came to comfort him no clew that he could pursue. Days grew into weeks.
You know that in that eternal code of "nature and of nature's God," which your forefathers invoked when they raised the colonies of England to the rank of a free nation, there are no pettifogging subtleties, but only everlasting principles: everlasting, like those by which the world is ruled.
It is all-important that the profession should have and deserve that character. A horde of pettifogging, barratrous, custom-seeking, money-making lawyers, is one of the greatest curses with which any state or community can be visited.
I may be the slave of perspective effects, but when I turn my mind from the pettifogging muddle of the English House of Commons, for example, that magnified vestry that is so proud of itself as a club when I turn from that to this race of brave and smiling people, abruptly destiny begins drawing with a bolder hand.
This was not Joanna Godden coming boldly to the Law of England to obtain redress from her grievous oppression by pettifogging clerks it was just a miserable dispute between the Commissioners of Inland Revenue and the Lessor of Property under the Act.
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