To offend, and judge, are distinct offices
And of opposed natures.
It doth appear you are a worthy judge;
You know the law; your exposition
Hath been most sound.
What is my offence?
Where are the evidence that do accuse me?
What lawful quest have given their verdict up
Unto the frowning judge?
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly,
and to decide impartially.
Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is
acquitted.
Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme
finis inclinat.
Our magistrates discharge their duties best
at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.
JUDGMENT
(See also Judges)
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.
| author = Addison
| work = A Poem to His Majesty. L. 21.
Cruel and cold is the judgment of man,
Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;
But by-and-by will the deed and the plan
Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
Lewis J. Bates—By-and-By.
Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry,
Safe in the inner fold;
And maybe they hear, and wonder why,
And marvel, out in the cold.
Richard Burton—Black Sheep.
My friend, judge not me.
Thou seest I judge not thee;
Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
Mercy I askt, mercy I found.
Camden—Remaines Concerning Britaine.
1637. P. 392. Quoted by Dr. Hill on
epitaph to a man killed by a fall from his
horse,
Woe to him, * * * who has no court of
appeal against the world's judgment.
Carlyle—Essays. Mirabeau.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art
found wanting.
Daniel. V. 27.
We judge others according to results; how
else?—not knowing the process by which results
are arrived at.
George Eliot—The Mill on the Floss. Bk.
VII. Ch.II.
In other men we faults can spy,
And blame the mote that dims their eye;
Each little speck and blemish find,
To our own stronger errors blind.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more.
Gay—The What D'ye Call It. Act II. Sc. 9.
I know of no way of judging the future but
by the past.
Patrick Henry—Speech in the Virginia Convention. (1775)
Judicio vulgi, sanus fortasse tuo.
Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours.
Horace—Satires. Bk. I. 6. 97.
Verso pollice.
With thumb turned.
Juvenal—Satires. III. 36.
"Vertere" or "convertere pollicem" was the
sign of condemnation; "premere" or "comprimere pollicem" (to press or press down the
thumb) signified popular favour. To press down
both thumbs (utroque pollice compresso) signified a desire to caress one who had fought well.
See Horace. Ep. I. 18. 66. Prudenttus—
Ado. Sym. 1098, gives it "Converso pollice."
Quid tarn dextro pede concipis ut te conatus
non poeniteat votique peracti?
What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and
the accomplishment of your wish?
Juvenal—Satires. X. 5.
On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit;
mais on ne Test jamais avec du jugement.
We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent,
but never of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld—Maximes. 456.
He that judges without informing himself to
the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
Locke—Human Understanding. Bk. II. Ch.
XXI.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable
of doing, while others judge us by what we have
already done.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Kavanagh. Ch. I.
Give your decisions, never your reasons; your
decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to
be wrong.
Lord Mansfebld's Advice.
When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy summoning archangels to proclaim
Thy dread tribunal.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. III. L. 323.
