Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Quotes

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It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
In the large animals, you see And own a wise economy - Without their aids, Man's boundless sway You feel would languish and decay.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine