Addresses Delivered March 13, 1902: And Papers Prepared Or Republished to Commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the Law Association of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1802-1902 |
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... knew as much of the former bar as any of his contempora- ries , and they have all long since departed without adding anything to what he left . " Of the first bar after the Revo- lution we have the delightful sketch left by Mr. Binney ...
... knew as much of the former bar as any of his contempora- ries , and they have all long since departed without adding anything to what he left . " Of the first bar after the Revo- lution we have the delightful sketch left by Mr. Binney ...
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... knew a great deal more about law and lawyers , including the judges , than his youthful counsel did , informed me one day that he had called upon the late President Judge Oswald Thompson , and told him about a case that was to come up ...
... knew a great deal more about law and lawyers , including the judges , than his youthful counsel did , informed me one day that he had called upon the late President Judge Oswald Thompson , and told him about a case that was to come up ...
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... knew nothing of the case that I had except the formal application in the paper . While thus waiting in great trepidation , my case was called ; but , fortunately for me , just as I arose , my preceptor entered the room and I handed him ...
... knew nothing of the case that I had except the formal application in the paper . While thus waiting in great trepidation , my case was called ; but , fortunately for me , just as I arose , my preceptor entered the room and I handed him ...
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... knew , being the earliest account which we have of the subject . His devotion to the interests of the library I have already noticed in connection with the catalogue of 1805. On the union of the Law Library Company and the Associated ...
... knew , being the earliest account which we have of the subject . His devotion to the interests of the library I have already noticed in connection with the catalogue of 1805. On the union of the Law Library Company and the Associated ...
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... knew later as great lawyers , unanimously conceded to him the foremost place . He was elected to Con- gress , but resigned after one session , and it used to be said that his assigned reason was that he was accustomed to asso- ciate ...
... knew later as great lawyers , unanimously conceded to him the foremost place . He was elected to Con- gress , but resigned after one session , and it used to be said that his assigned reason was that he was accustomed to asso- ciate ...
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Page 146 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
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Page 406 - Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, entitled "an act to confer on certain associations of the citizens of this commonwealth the powers and immunities of corporations or bodies politic in law...
Page 107 - England," says Horace Binney, (art. Edward Tilghman, Encyclopedia Amerkana, vol. xiv.,) ''and by each of them men have succeeded in public estimation to an almost equal extent. One of them, which may be called the old way, is a methodical study of the general system of law, and of its grounds and reasons, beginning with the fundamental law of estates and tenures, and pursuing the derivative branches in logical...
Page 142 - INGERSOLL did not consider the signing, either as a mere attestation of the fact or as pledging the signers to support the Constitution at all events ; but as a recommendation of what, all things considered, was the most eligible.
Page 164 - ... the law for their response; and when he obtained it, notwithstanding his clear perception of the justice of the cause, and his intense desire to reach it, if it was not the justice of the law, he dared not to administer it. He acted upon the sentiment of Lord Bacon, that it is the foulest injustice to remove land-marks, and that to corrupt the law, is to poison the very fountain of justice. With a consciousness that to the errors of the science there are some limits, but none to the evils of...
Page 127 - After doing my best, one morning, to overtake Chief Justice Marshall in his quick march to the Capitol, when he was nearer to eighty than to seventy, I asked him to what cause in particular he attributed that strong and quick step ; and he replied that he thought it was most due to his commission in the army of the Revolution, in which he had been a regular foot practitioner for nearly six years.
Page 406 - That the said corporation and their successors, shall have full power and authority to make, have and use, one common seal, with such device and inscription as they shall think fit and proper ; and the same to break, alter and renew, at their pleasure.
Page 259 - to revise, collate and digest all such public acts and statutes of the Civil Code of this State, and all such British statutes in force in this State, as are general and permanent in their nature," we now respectfully submit to the Legislature, this, our first Report.
Page 79 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...