We are all desirous to sit as long as we can, but necessity justifies that which it compels; the strength of man is not adequate to this. Lord Mansfield, as little inclined to give way as any man, did give way at a certain hour in the case of Lord Pomfret.


Stone's Case (1796), 25 How. St. Tr. 1290.

Lloyd Kenyon Quotes

We are all desirous to sit as long as we can, but necessity justifies that which it compels; the strength of man is not adequate to this. Lord...

We are all desirous to sit as long as we can, but necessity justifies that which it compels; the strength of man is not adequate to this. Lord...

We are all desirous to sit as long as we can, but necessity justifies that which it compels; the strength of man is not adequate to this. Lord...

We are all desirous to sit as long as we can, but necessity justifies that which it compels; the strength of man is not adequate to this. Lord...