| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
| William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...a study. The profession itself is. numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The j^S^ greater number of the deputies sent to the congress...lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour 1 to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no... | |
| Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number ot the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress...have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported... | |
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