 In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most...  British Eloquence - Страница 217под редакцията на - 1884Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1885 - 548 страници
...speeches, " For Conciliation with America," March 23, 1775, Burke observes of the American Colonies, "in no country, perhaps in the world, is the law so...number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's commentaries (then receutly published) in... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 страници
...which contributes no mean part2 towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country, perhaps, in the world, is the law so general a study.3 The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 страници
...which contributes no mean part2 towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country, perhaps, in the world, is the law so general a study.3 The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1886 - 124 страници
...full of lawyers." Edmund Burke, in 1785, speaking of the English colonies in America, declared that " In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so...study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful." Not only is the complaint that the profession is crowded an old one, but it seems to be a general one.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 страници
...contributes no mean part towards the growth and effec? 140 of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The 125. at hrand and general an the air. " As broad and general as the casing air." — SHAKESPEARE :... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - 1887 - 1042 страници
...Burke said of Americans, in another line, is true of them in their devotion to the Bible, namely : ' In no country, perhaps, in the world, is the law so general a study.' We see, then, that Robinson, Crosby, Irving, Orchard, Jones, Backus, Benedict, Cramp, and other Baptist... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1901 - 982 страници
...Commons his famous observations on the conciliation of America, he declared of our thirteen colonies: "In no country perhaps in the world is the law so...number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers." . . . Again "but all who read, and most do read, obtain some smattering in that science." "I have been... | |
 | 1904 - 926 страници
...among the colonists, the widespread taste for legal education. "In no country in the world," said he, "is the law so general a study. The profession itself...number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers." General Gage had reported he observed that all the.people in his government were lawyers or smatterers... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - 1889 - 796 страници
...Revolution stimulated the study of the law. Edmund Burke said in a speech in Parliament : " In no other country perhaps in the world is the law so general...study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful. . . . The greater number of deputies sent to Congress are lawyers. I have been told," he said, " by... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1891 - 852 страници
...which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the...read — and most do read — endeavor to obtain some smatteiing in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business,... | |
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