 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...appear. A judge, Bacon said, should be patient and grave. "An over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to shew quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 1102 pages
...and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an over-speaking Judge in no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a Judge first to find that which he might have heard iu due time from the Bar, or to show quickness of conceit iu cutting off evidence... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 2005 - 1436 pages
...hearing, says the great Lord Bacon, is an essential part of justice ; and an overspeaking judge is no well tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge, first...ones. In hearing a cause, the parts of a judge are four—to direct the evidence—to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech—to recapitulate,... | |
 | Lord Macmillan - 1938 - 300 pages
...Courts are to enjoy public confidence. Not a few judges have failed to lay to heart Bacon's admonition : "It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the Bar." ' Mr Justieo Wills, who was not free from this defect,... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 474 pages
..."meet a cause half way, nor give occasion to the party to say his counsel or proofs were not heard, for it is no grace to a Judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the Bar — " words which might almost tempt' us to forget the... | |
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Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice ; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting... 
