A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law StudiesA. Maxwell, 1835 - 552 pages |
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... respect in which all the law - lecturers , of whom the author has had the means of judging , have seemed to him at fault . They do not attempt to enforce systematic mental discipline , to facilitate the acquisition of legal habits of ...
... respect in which all the law - lecturers , of whom the author has had the means of judging , have seemed to him at fault . They do not attempt to enforce systematic mental discipline , to facilitate the acquisition of legal habits of ...
Page 106
... respect- fully asked of him who does not happen to command the purse of a family Croesus , when you come to commence business ? How are you to lay in a library ? To take proper chambers ? To keep clerk and laun- dress ? To purchase your ...
... respect- fully asked of him who does not happen to command the purse of a family Croesus , when you come to commence business ? How are you to lay in a library ? To take proper chambers ? To keep clerk and laun- dress ? To purchase your ...
Page 120
... intellect of any but the most grovelling description rest satisfied with this ? What Burke said of Mr. Grenville - two men in this respect the very anti- podes of each other - is worthy of being borne 120 FORMATION OF A LEGAL CHARACTER .
... intellect of any but the most grovelling description rest satisfied with this ? What Burke said of Mr. Grenville - two men in this respect the very anti- podes of each other - is worthy of being borne 120 FORMATION OF A LEGAL CHARACTER .
Page 126
... respect and attention among the well educated classes of society . " -Williams's Study of the Law , pp . 206-7.— " If these things be done in the green , what shall be done in the dry ? " If " solicitors and attorneys " are to be thus ...
... respect and attention among the well educated classes of society . " -Williams's Study of the Law , pp . 206-7.— " If these things be done in the green , what shall be done in the dry ? " If " solicitors and attorneys " are to be thus ...
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... respect it maketh a quick eye , and a body ready to put itself into all postures ; so in the mathematics , that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended * . " The exquisite ...
... respect it maketh a quick eye , and a body ready to put itself into all postures ; so in the mathematics , that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended * . " The exquisite ...
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Page 118 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word, Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ? Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it : from this moment, The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
Page 150 - ... is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and the like ; .so if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit bo called away never so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores ; " if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate...
Page 9 - People have now-a-days," said he, " got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures...
Page 457 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself...
Page 26 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences, — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all tho other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 53 - Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such employment. As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them.
Page 37 - But knowledge that is delivered as a thread to be spun on, ought to be delivered and intimated !, if it were possible, in the same method wherein it was invented; and so is it possible of knowledge induced.
Page 150 - ... riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Page 232 - If a man agrees with another for goods at a certain price, he may not carry them away before he hath paid for them; for it is no sale without payment, unless the contrary be expressly agreed.
Page 25 - And first of all, the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which, with all its defects, redundancies, and errors, is the collected reason of ages, combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns, as a heap of old exploded errors, would be no longer studied.