 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1923 - 292 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. This study of the law renders men acute, inquisitive, dextrous, prompt in attack, ready in defense,... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 832 pages
...Jefferson degraded into a demon." The English lord seems to have understood that Jefferson was 1 "I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no...America as in England." — Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775. the foil to Washington. Indeed, he says his American correspondent intimated... | |
 | George Shea - Christianity - 1882 - 90 pages
..." I have been told by an eminent bookseller," said Edmund Burke to the House of Co'mmons in 1775, " that in no branch of his business, after tracts of...into the way of printing them for their own use." The first great commentary by an Englishman, written in the English language, was this by Blackstone,... | |
 | George Whitefield Samson - Bible - 1882 - 156 pages
...loyalty and religious integrity of the colonists, then 3,000,000 in number, by this statement : " I have been told by an eminent book-seller, that in...of popular devotion, were so many books as those on law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for themselves.... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their i50 own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentarics in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1883 - 722 pages
...— and most do read, — endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told bj an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business,...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." Of this state of society, the great works of Kent and Story were, at a later period, the natural result.... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - United States - 1883 - 612 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...of popular devotion, were so many books as those on Law exported to the plantations. The colonies have now fallen into the way of printing them for their... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 360 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... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 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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I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own... 
