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... Coke calls prę propera praxis . And secondly , the frequency of assuming the labours of the profession , by those whose education and habits have been foreign from science and system ; and who , if they have studied at all , have been ...
... Coke calls prę propera praxis . And secondly , the frequency of assuming the labours of the profession , by those whose education and habits have been foreign from science and system ; and who , if they have studied at all , have been ...
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... Coke's Reports , on Real Law , 776 to 800 801 to 810 810 to 825 826 to 843 2. To Select Cases in Lord Coke's Reports , on Personal Law , 3. General Index , • 845 847 . 849 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . A CAREFUL examination into ...
... Coke's Reports , on Real Law , 776 to 800 801 to 810 810 to 825 826 to 843 2. To Select Cases in Lord Coke's Reports , on Personal Law , 3. General Index , • 845 847 . 849 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . A CAREFUL examination into ...
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... been accomplished within the last half century . So great has been the change in the legal science , even of England , ( and altogether for the better , ) that it has been said , were lord Coke , with his immense X ADVERTISEMENT .
... been accomplished within the last half century . So great has been the change in the legal science , even of England , ( and altogether for the better , ) that it has been said , were lord Coke , with his immense X ADVERTISEMENT .
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Addressed to Students and the Profession Generally David Hoffman. been said , were lord Coke , with his immense learning , suddenly restored to Westminster Hall , he would find himself compelled to become a close and methodical student ...
Addressed to Students and the Profession Generally David Hoffman. been said , were lord Coke , with his immense learning , suddenly restored to Westminster Hall , he would find himself compelled to become a close and methodical student ...
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... Coke's Reports . We mention this , in limine , because we have remarked that many students , from very erroneous im- pressions , have shrunk from this portion of their pre- scribed course , -and because we have uniformly found * Should ...
... Coke's Reports . We mention this , in limine , because we have remarked that many students , from very erroneous im- pressions , have shrunk from this portion of their pre- scribed course , -and because we have uniformly found * Should ...
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Page 70 - LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion : bless the LORD, O my soul. PSALM CIV. "DLESS the LORD, O my soul. O LORD *~* my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty : Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 65 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, " and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine " origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important " history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected " from all other books, in whatever language they may have been
Page 22 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 71 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 70 - They go up by the mountains ; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over ; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 66 - The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.
Page 71 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Page 24 - ... of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 24 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 66 - The two parts of which the SCRIPTURES consist, are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unrestrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.