Re: Thanks for the "Blackstone" assistance

From: Fred Shapiro (fred.shapiro@yale.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 18:13:18 PDT


On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, T. R. Halvorson wrote:

> "Did you expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has not sould
> to be damned and no body to be kicked?"
>
> Wilberforce, Life of Thurlow, 1775, as quoted in Shrager and Frost, The
> Quotable Lawyer, para 15.5, p. 27 (Facts on File Publications, New York
> 1986).

Elizabeth Frost is a friend of mine, but her book is not a reliable source
for quotation information. I see no book on RLIN that has any author and
title even approximating "Wilberforce, Life of Thurlow."

Fred Shapiro

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