 | 1893 - 640 страници
...library, he specially admires his fine collection of classics, on which the advocate remarks : ' These are my tools of trade. A lawyer without history or...if he ' possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call ' himself an architect.' Arbuthnot belonged to the architects of the medical profession.... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 страници
...guilty escape than one innocent man suffer. Agree with thine adversary quickly. — NEW TESTAMENT. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he many venture to call himself an architect. — SIR WALTER SCOTT. A lawyer is a learned gentleman who... | |
 | 1920 - 490 страници
...Bench. Mr. Pleydell, the most delightful of all Sir Walter Scott's legal characters, is made to say, ' A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason.' If this be true of the lawyer, it is equally true of the judge. The Bench has certainly not lost in prestige... | |
 | National Library of Scotland - 1971 - 184 страници
...itself. There, it will appear, in manuscript as in print, the precept of Pleydell had been anticipated: A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. The dedication to the Dean and Members of the Faculty of Advocates... | |
 | Tambyah Nadaraja - 1972 - 370 страници
...publisher. TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF SIR PONNAMBALAM ARUNACHALAM (1853—1924) SCHOLAR AND STATESMAN A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. COUNSELLOR PLEYDELL in Scott's Guy Mannering, chap. 37 CONTENTS... | |
 | Paul R. Clancy - 1974 - 338 страници
...sights on the law. But he kept in mind the advice of a Scottish lawyer by the name of Sir Walter Scott: "A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect." Ervin was not the campus politician that his brother Joe, who... | |
 | Sam J. Ervin - 1994 - 228 страници
...voracious reader all of his life. He loved to quote these words from Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering: "A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...mason. If he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect." My father studied law without an instructor. After he was admitted... | |
 | Jerzy Makarczyk - 1984 - 784 страници
...stated in the words of a character from Walter Scott — a favourite quotation of Arnold McNair's — A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these he may venture to call himself an architect [Counsellor Pleydell in Guy Mannering]. It is important, however,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 страници
...should always have them to converse with. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish novelist, poet Whenever... | |
 | Jean Brissaud - 2001 - 636 страници
...Variety and Unity of History (Address at the World's Congress of Arts and Science, St. Louis, 1904). A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.—Sir WALTBB SCOTT, "Guy Mannering," c. XXXVII. CONTENTS EDITORIAL... | |
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. 
