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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, by Frank Harris. [Followed By] Memories of Oscar Wilde, by G.B. Shaw (Paperback)
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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, by Frank Harris. [Followed By] Memories of Oscar Wilde, by G.B. Shaw (Paperback)
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt:
... chapter xiv The English are very proud of their sense of
justice, proud too of their Roman law and the practice of the
Courts in which they have incorporated it. They boast of their fair
play in all things as the French boast of their lightness, and if
you question it, you lose caste with them, as one prejudiced or
ignorant or both. English justice cannot be bought, they say, and
if it is dear, excessively dear even, they rather like to feel they
have paid a long price for a good article. Yet it may be that here,
as in other things, they take outward propriety and decorum for the
inward and ineffable grace. That a judge should be incorruptible is
not so important as that he should be wise and humane. English
journalists and barristers were very much amused at the conduct of
the Dreyfus case; yet, when Dreyfus was being tried for the second
time in France, two or three instances of similar injustice in
England were set forth with circumstance in one of the London
newspapers, but no one paid any effective attention to them. If
Dreyfus had been convicted in England, it is probable that no voice
would 229 ever have been raised in his favour; it is absolutely
certain that there would never have been a second trial. A keen
sense of abstract justice is only to be found in conjunction with a
rich fount of imaginative sympathy. The English are too
self-absorbed to take much interest in their neighbours' affairs,
too busy to care for abstract questions of right or wrong. Before
the trial of Oscar Wilde I still believed that in a criminal case
rough justice would be done in England. The bias of an English
judge, I said to myself, is always in favour of the accused. It is
an honourable tradition of English procedure that even the Treasury
barristers should state rather less...
General
Imprint: |
General Books LLC
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2012 |
First published: |
2012 |
Authors: |
James Thomas Harris
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
68 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-150-36702-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-150-36702-4 |
Barcode: |
9781150367021 |
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