 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...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...greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress 4 were lawyers. But all who read (and most do read) endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...sir, to add another circumstance in our Colonies which contributes no mean part2 towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their...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 - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...another circumstance in our colonies which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effec? 140 of this untractable spirit. I mean their education....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 :... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1886 - 124 pages
...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.... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1887 - 250 pages
...and finds one in their education. " In no country, perhaps, in the world," this is his language, " is the law so general a study. The profession itself...the lead. The greater number of the Deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...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 - Bar associations - 1901 - 982 pages
...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...lead. "The greater number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers." . . . Again "but all who read, and most do read, obtain some smattering in... | |
 | Law - 1904 - 926 pages
...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...the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers." General Gage had reported he observed that all the.people in his government... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...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 - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 pages
...Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their...the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. But all who read — and most do read — endeavor to obtain some smatteiing... | |
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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 Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do... 
