North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 6Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge University of Northern Iowa, 1818 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 46
... courts , were before that period either wholly unknown , or at the most , but very imperfectly understood . In respect to insurance , we may almost say that the law has grown up within the latter half of the eighteenth century ...
... courts , were before that period either wholly unknown , or at the most , but very imperfectly understood . In respect to insurance , we may almost say that the law has grown up within the latter half of the eighteenth century ...
Page 47
... courts of common law ; and the only court , in which the subject was much considered , ( we mean the admiralty , ) laboured under the severe hostility of these courts , and had to maintain an arduous struggle even for existence . Under ...
... courts of common law ; and the only court , in which the subject was much considered , ( we mean the admiralty , ) laboured under the severe hostility of these courts , and had to maintain an arduous struggle even for existence . Under ...
Page 49
... courts of justice . We must be content , since we cannot hope to realize these utopian dreams of human excellence , to secure the upright and enlightened administra- tion of justice by encouraging learned advocates to fit them- selves ...
... courts of justice . We must be content , since we cannot hope to realize these utopian dreams of human excellence , to secure the upright and enlightened administra- tion of justice by encouraging learned advocates to fit them- selves ...
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... courts of justice . But adding every thing , which the most strenuous advocate of the ancient law would ask , we may safely pronounce that the labours of a modern student , if he means to attain eminence , must be infinitely greater ...
... courts of justice . But adding every thing , which the most strenuous advocate of the ancient law would ask , we may safely pronounce that the labours of a modern student , if he means to attain eminence , must be infinitely greater ...
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... courts of chancery with so much brevity , perspi- cuity and analytical exactness , that probably to this , more than any other work , we owe some of the most valuable im- provements in the principles as well as the proceedings , which ...
... courts of chancery with so much brevity , perspi- cuity and analytical exactness , that probably to this , more than any other work , we owe some of the most valuable im- provements in the principles as well as the proceedings , which ...
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