Our Infirmities.
The late hc\\ Chief Justice Coleridge used to tell a story of hid colleagues. On one occasion the entire body of judges had assembled to draw up an address to the Crown. The question was debated how id should begin. One judge suggested: 11 How would it read, Lord Chancellor, if it were to begin in a humble spirit with • Conscious as we are of our infirmities ?' " Another judge interposed here, and objected, saying that he was not conscious of any infirmities, and he wag quite sure that most of his legal brethren were in the same condition. Whereupon Lord Bowen, with a marked twinkle in his eye, pb3erved : •• How would it read, Lord Chancellor, if we were to begin, ' Conscious as we are of each other's infirmities ?'*
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Manawatu Herald, 6 August 1898, Page 3
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130Our Infirmities. Manawatu Herald, 6 August 1898, Page 3
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