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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 18
by James Boswell - 1785 - 524 pages
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1785 - 548 pages
...better that advantage mould be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no caufea till they were fure they were juft, a man might be...This was found practical doctrine> and rationally repreflfed a too refined fcrupulofity of confcience. Emigration was at this time a common topick of...
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The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and ..., Volume 10

1785 - 522 pages
...bychance. Ii lawyers were to undertake no caufes till they were furc they were juft, a man might he precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found à very juft claim." This was found practical doclrine, and rationally rcpreiled a too relined fcrupulofuy...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1786 - 478 pages
...There muft always be fome advantage, on one fide or other ; and it is better that advantage fliould be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were...of confcience. Emigration was at this time a common topickof difcpurfe. Dr. Johnfon regretted it as hurtful to human happinefs : " For Cfaid he) it fpreads...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim1.' This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity"...
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Thomas Bilney. Thomas More. William Tindall. Cromwell, earl of Essex. John ...

1810 - 548 pages
...talents than by chance. If Lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just clait.i." Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, p. 14. fee. fee. Yet by this office, and learned counsaile,...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.

James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pages
...talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." — This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity...
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Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with ..., Volume 2

Christopher Wordsworth - 1818 - 544 pages
...talents than by chance. If Lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim." Boswcll's Tow to the Hebrides, p. 14. this office, and learned counsaile, (for there was...
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The Port Folio

1824 - 552 pages
...talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.' " This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, ride and bridegroom set out on horseback, I suppose...Butthough * she could not keep up with me; and, w just claim." This was sound practical doctrine, and rationally repressed a too refined scrupulosity...
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The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 22

1839 - 508 pages
...talents than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of...were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.'"—Boswell's Life of Johnson, Murray's small edition, vol. iii. pp. 16, 17. It is also...
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