 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 pagina’s
...its studies, for he afterwards spoke CHAP. of it as one of the first and noblest of human AD 1765. sciences ; " a science which does more to quicken...than all the other kinds of learning put together."* May he not have doubted his success, or felt impatient of the interval which must elapse before he... | |
 | Claude Buffier - 1838 - 224 pagina’s
...age. Such a Statesman is thus delineated by the masterly hand of Burke:— " Mr. [George] Grenville was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of reasoning put together; but, it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize... | |
 | 1842 - 584 pagina’s
...speak of the members of the legal profession. It is Burke, I think, who says of the law, that " it is a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together, but which is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to... | |
 | David Hoffman - 1841 - 400 pagina’s
...another occasion, he spoke of the law as 'one of the first and noblest of human sciences, and that it does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding,...than all the other kinds of learning put together' — and yet, when he comes to speak of lawyers, it is in language by no means eulogistic. But, were... | |
 | 1842 - 624 pagina’s
...law-lords painfully proves the soundness of Burke 's remarks on the tendency of the study of the law, — " a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together, but which is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to... | |
 | 1842 - 452 pagina’s
...law-lords painfully proves the soundness of Burke's remarks on the tendency of the study of the law, — "a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together, but which is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 pagina’s
...institution, and a perfect practice in all its business. He was bred to a profession ; the profession of the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of sciences — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...Burke,— certainly well qualified to judge, — who thus express himself in relation to Lord Grenville: "He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion,...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all other kinds of learning put together : — but which is not apt, except in persons very happily born,... | |
 | 1851 - 702 pagina’s
...and philosophical an observer as Edmund Burke, said, when sketching the character of Grenville ; " He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all other kinds of learning put together ; but is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pagina’s
...and philosophical an observer as Edmund Burke, said, when sketching the character of Grenville ; " He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all other kinds of learning put together ; but is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open... | |
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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 tho other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in... 
