Tag: charles dickens

  • Settling or compromising legal disputes-the benefits

    One of the most memorable characters in any of the novels of Charles Dickens is Uriah Heep. He features in the 1850 novel, “David Copperfield” by Dickens, and is the personification of unctuousness, sycophancy, insincerity, and false humility. He was brought up, he says, to be “ever so ‘umble”. He writhes his way into the…