Proceedings of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin, Volume 18The Association, 1928 Biographical sketches of deceased members of the Wisconsin bar included in many of the volumes. |
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Page 154 - They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in, For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win.
Page 153 - Master of human destinies am I, Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities, and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel, and mart, and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake— if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 186 - ... the legislature at its first session after the adoption of this constitution, shall appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this state, or so much and such parts thereof as to the said commissioners shall seem practicable and expedient.
Page 35 - IDEALS ARE LIKE STARS. YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED IN TOUCHING THEM WITH YOUR HANDS, BUT LIKE THE SEA-FARING MAN ON THE DESERT OF WATERS. YOU CHOOSE THEM AS YOUR GUIDES AND FOLLOWING THEM, YOU REACH YOUR DESTINY.
Page 173 - It is the duty of the bar to endeavor to prevent political considerations from outweighing judicial fitness in the selections of judges. It should protest earnestly and actively against the appointment or election of those who are unsuitable for the bench...
Page 148 - It is believed to be one of the chief merits of the American system of written constitutional law that all the powers intrusted to government, whether State or National, are divided into the three grand departments, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. That the functions appropriate to each of these branches of government shall be vested in a separate body of public servants, and that the perfection of the system...
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Page 60 - According to the generally understood definition of the practice of law in this country, it embraces the preparation of pleadings, and other papers incident to actions and special proceedings...
Page 154 - I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances passed away! Weep not for golden ages on the wane! Each night I burn the records of the day — At sunrise every soul is born again!
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