Frasi di Lord Brougham

Henry Peter Brougham, I barone Brougham e Vaux , è stato un politico britannico.

Giovane avvocato nella natia Scozia contribuì alla fondazione dell' Edinburgh Review nel 1802 e vi pubblicò vari articoli. Trasferitosi a Londra, fu ammesso all'ordine degli Avvocati nel 1808. Entrò nella camera dei Comuni nel 1810 come deputato whig. Spiccò per la sua spiccata opposizione alla tratta degli schiavi e al restringimento delle relazioni commerciali con l'Europa continentale.

Nel 1820 raggiunse una discreta fama come chief attorney di Carolina di Brunswick e nel successivo decennio fu tra i protagonisti della politica liberale del Parlamento.

Non solo si distinse per le proposte di rinnovamento dell'educazione, ma fu anche uno dei fondatori della Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge nel 1825 e dell'University College of London nel 1828.

Come Lord Chancellor attuò una serie di riforme per velocizzare i processi e rafforzare l'Old Bailey.

Negli ultimi anni si ritirò a Cannes. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Settembre 1778 – 7. Maggio 1868
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Lord Brougham: Frasi in inglese

“In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.”

Present State of the Law (February 7, 1828).
Variante: In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

“Equity has not relieved against gross improvidence.”

Duke of Beaufort v. Neeld (1845), 12 CI. & F. 260.

“Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.”

Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) p. 366.

“A contract executed without any part performance.”

R. v. Millis (1844), 16 C1. & Fin. 719; describing marriage.

“Death was now armed with a new terror.”

Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiring Chancellor death was now armed with a new terror. Thomas Campbell, Lives of the Chancellors, vol. vii. p. 163. Lord St. Leonards attributes this phrase to Sir Charles Wetherell, who used it on the occasion referred to by Lord Campbell. It likely originates with the practice of Edmund Curll, who issued miserable catch-penny lives of every eminent person immediately after that person's decease. John Arbuthnot wittily styled him "one of the new terrors of death", Carruthers, Life of Pope (second edition), p. 149.

“What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.”

From The Edinburgh Review, The Work of Thomas Young (c. 1802).

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