A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law StudiesA. Maxwell, 1835 - 552 sider |
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... learning Law - Advantages of the former - Solitary Study -Blackstone's Commentaries - Difficulties of it - Opinion of Mr. Starkie - Specimen of Chamber Tuition - Case of the Sale and Re - sale of a Cow , & c . - Cigars - Method of ...
... learning Law - Advantages of the former - Solitary Study -Blackstone's Commentaries - Difficulties of it - Opinion of Mr. Starkie - Specimen of Chamber Tuition - Case of the Sale and Re - sale of a Cow , & c . - Cigars - Method of ...
Side 3
... learning . The vast extent , the " variety almost infinite , " the subtlety , complexity , and minuteness of knowledge required by the exigencies of daily prac- tice - knowledge which must be thoroughly mastered , or it had better be ...
... learning . The vast extent , the " variety almost infinite , " the subtlety , complexity , and minuteness of knowledge required by the exigencies of daily prac- tice - knowledge which must be thoroughly mastered , or it had better be ...
Side 4
... learning by a different route - that scarce any two individuals can be found to concur in recommending a course of elementary study . Ought it to be so ? * Even thus it was in Roger North's time , who complains- " that each student is ...
... learning by a different route - that scarce any two individuals can be found to concur in recommending a course of elementary study . Ought it to be so ? * Even thus it was in Roger North's time , who complains- " that each student is ...
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... learners , he has more opportunities for ascertaining their proficiency , correcting their misapprehensions , and relieving their embarrassments . " — Works , vol . ii . p . 568 . 66 It has also been suggested to the author , by an ...
... learners , he has more opportunities for ascertaining their proficiency , correcting their misapprehensions , and relieving their embarrassments . " — Works , vol . ii . p . 568 . 66 It has also been suggested to the author , by an ...
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... learning and saga- city as England ever saw - and have already exer- cised a most sensible and benignant influence upon every department of litigation , with reference equally to suitors and practitioners : saving to the one , the ...
... learning and saga- city as England ever saw - and have already exer- cised a most sensible and benignant influence upon every department of litigation , with reference equally to suitors and practitioners : saving to the one , the ...
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Side 120 - 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.
Side 11 - 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...
Side 152 - Bowling is good for the stone and 30 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...
Side 451 - 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...
Side 193 - The doctrines of this Court ought to be as well settled, and made as uniform, almost, as those of the common law, laying down fixed principles, but taking care that they are to be applied according to the circumstances of each case.
Side 28 - 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.
Side 152 - ... 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 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.
Side 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.
Side 27 - 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.
Side 94 - Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too.