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... writing - chamber was the best training for a lawyer : ' a very erroneous ' view , according to Home , who held this to be ' the worst education . It is consuming so much time in mere copying of Styles ' ( BP xv . 269 ) . The principal ...
... writing - chamber was the best training for a lawyer : ' a very erroneous ' view , according to Home , who held this to be ' the worst education . It is consuming so much time in mere copying of Styles ' ( BP xv . 269 ) . The principal ...
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... writing- chamber in the early eighteenth century can be obtained from ' A Discourse by way of Dialogue betwixt a writer and his apprentice ' , which came from the library of John McGowan , who was admitted Writer to the Signet in 1712 ...
... writing- chamber in the early eighteenth century can be obtained from ' A Discourse by way of Dialogue betwixt a writer and his apprentice ' , which came from the library of John McGowan , who was admitted Writer to the Signet in 1712 ...
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... writing , and your motives for so writing , are above my reach , so I must wait ' till ye are pleas'd to be plainer and more uniform ( at Least to me ) before I can understand , not to say to argument upon , your Scheme . For if I shou ...
... writing , and your motives for so writing , are above my reach , so I must wait ' till ye are pleas'd to be plainer and more uniform ( at Least to me ) before I can understand , not to say to argument upon , your Scheme . For if I shou ...
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Family and Early Education | 3 |
The Law and Edinburgh | 8 |
Interlude The FortyFive Rising | 44 |
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