 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 Seiten
...colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this intractable spirit. / mean their education. In no country perhaps in the...provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of deputies sent to the Congress are lawyers ; but all who read — and most do read — endeavor to obtain... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 504 Seiten
...colonies, which contributes no mean part 8 towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I -mean their education. In no country, perhaps, in...powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The great number of the deputies sent to the Congress * were lawyers. This study renders men acute, inquisitive,... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1883 - 1094 Seiten
...1775, RCRKE observes of the American Colonies, " lit no country, piThnpK, in the world, if the lair so general a study. The profession itself is numerous...number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blaekshnie's Coiiiineiit'iriet [then recently published]... | |
 | 1885 - 548 Seiten
...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 - 624 Seiten
...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...the lead. The 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 Seiten
...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...the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress* were lawyers. But all who read (and most do read) endeavor to obtain some smattering... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 Seiten
...and one of which our historians (Bancroft, Hildreth, and others) have not taken sufficient note. 242 profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in...the lead. The greater number of the Deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read (and most i« do read) endeavor to obtain some smattering... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1886 - 124 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1901 - 982 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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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 the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most... 
