...ose merit friend or foe could even quarrel, unless when he scouted our great charter as a glittering generality, or jeered at the philanthropy which tried to practise the Sermon on the Mount! When Cordus , the Roman Senator, whom Tiberius murdered, was addressing his fellows, he began: Fathers, they accuse me of illegal words; plain proof that there are no illegal deeds with which to charge me. So ...