 | 1838 - 804 pages
...tends to produce a narrowness and obliquity in their modes of thinking. "The law," says Burke, "tends more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all other kinds of learning put together, but it is not apt to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion." This is true, though... | |
 | Law - 1839 - 508 pages
...Burke, who, in allusion to Mr. Grenville's early education, remarks:— " He was bred in a profession. He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 562 pages
...alter the groundwork of 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...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...not alter the groundwork of 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...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to... | |
 | 1842 - 624 pages
...law-lords painfully proves the soundness of Burke 's remarks on the tendency of the study of the law, — " a science which does more to quicken and invigorate...than all other kinds of learning put together, but which is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in... | |
 | 1842 - 452 pages
...law-lords painfully proves the soundness of Burke's remarks on the tendency of the study of the law, — "a science which does more to quicken and invigorate...than all other kinds of learning put together, but which is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to upen and to liberalize the mind exactly in... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...3 Ibid. 4 Ibid. * Swift (On Censure—a little varied). fi Comus, 770. 7 Swift. He (Mr. Grenville) was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy of mind - 1843 - 632 pages
...practical pursuits of life. " Mr. Grenville was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the finest and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,... | |
 | Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...left the record of his opinion, in his spirited sketch of Mr Grenville. " He was bred to a profession. He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other .kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,... | |
 | Henry Brown - Illinois - 1844 - 526 pages
...institution, and a perfect practice in all its business. He was bred to a profession ; the profession of the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of sciences — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other... | |
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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... 
