 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...  Burke - Page 8by John Morley - 1879 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 pages
...Mr. Burke's Speech on American Taxation, is as follows.— "Mr. Grenville was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons rery happily born, to open... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...character, yet tinge it with iheir 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...science which does more to quicken and invigorate Ihe understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...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 docs more to (|iiickcn and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 582 pages
...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...except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion. Passing from that study, he did not go very largely... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 pages
...charge so thoughtless and unwarrantable. " Mr. Grenville," said Burke, " was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of...learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in those who are happily born, to open and liberalise the mind, exactly in the same proportion." It is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...character, yet tinge it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. He was bred to the law, which ^Ᏼ alt the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 pages
...himself an orator and statesman of the most enlarged research, has not hesitated to declare, that it is " One of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together." f But there is little need to appeal to the testimonies of the... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 pages
...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 pages
...thus delineated by the masterly hand of Burke:— " Mr. [George] Grenville was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of...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 pages
...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... | |
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