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" 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 the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons... "
Putnam's Monthly - Page 446
1857
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...not alter the groundwork of character, yet tinge it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...not alter the groundwork of character, yet tinge it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,...
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British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 21

Agriculture - 1852 - 620 pages
...situations. The observations are of so general a nature that they apply to any class of men : " Mr. Grenville was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together : but it is not apt, except in persons very hap. pily born,...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...not alter the groundwork of character, yet tinge it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. 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 the other...
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Eulogy of the Hon. Ira Perley, on the Late Daniel Webster: Pronounced Before ...

Ira Perley - 1852 - 48 pages
...said by Burke, a name, which carries with it a great weight of authority, " that, though the law is a science, which does more to quicken and invigorate...understanding than all other kinds of learning put together, yet it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind in exactly...
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The South-western Monthly, Volume 1

1852 - 440 pages
...Gianville," said he, "w»» red to the law, which is in my opinioi une of the first and noblest of the hu•man sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other •branches of learning put together; Jiut it is not apt, except in those who are happily...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71

Scotland - 1852 - 838 pages
...been a barrister " narrowed the extent and freedom of his political views." " He was bred to the law, a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together. Bat it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to...
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The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...not alter the ground-work of character, yet tinge it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than oll the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,...
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Atlantis: Zeitschrift für Leben und Literatur in England und Amerika, Volume 1

Literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...Berlin, 1 853. Enslin, 7 1 S. Burke sagt in seinem speech on the American laxation: 'Mr. Grenville was bred to the law, which is in my opinion one of...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...some trifling alterations, they may be extended to all the practical pursuits of life. " Mr. Grenville was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,...
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