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The United States as a Nation: Lectures on the Centennial of American ... - Page 39
by Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 323 pages
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...lawyers. But all who read — and most do read — endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...lawyers. But all who rend — and most do read — endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no...way of printing them for their own use. I hear that ther have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that...
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The American Law Register, Volume 14; Volume 23

Electronic journals - 1875 - 842 pages
...derived from " an eminent bookseller," as to the great exportation of law-books to this country, says : " The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for themselves. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no...Blackstone's " Commentaries" in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that...
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A Treatise on the Right of Personal Liberty: And on the Writ of Habeas ...

Rollin Carlos Hurd - Extradition - 1876 - 720 pages
...lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering of that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular dell 8] votion, were *so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonies have...
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The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane

Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I U'i ^Sneid, book vL It is in this view, sir — it...atonement for our long and cruel injustice toward General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that...
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The Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of Brilliant Orations by the ...

Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that...
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History of Civilization in England, Volume 1

Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1877 - 720 pages
...But all who read, — and most do read, — endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no...as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as ¡u England." Of this state of society, the great works of Kent and Story were, at a later period,...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 12

Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...interest. Burke, in one of his masterly orations, portraying the character of our fathers, says : " I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." l Nothing is clearer than that they knew it well. The framers of the National Constitution had it before...
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