...This circumstance led Burke, in moving his resolution for conciliation with the Colonies, to declare: 'I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.' " " W. PALEY, MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 345 (1824). " Wright, The Origins of the Separation of...

...lawyers." * * * Again, "but all who read, and most do read, obtain some smattering in that science." "I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no...of popular devotion, were so many books as those on law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their...

...conciliation with the colonies: "In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. ... I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts on popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantation. ... I have...

...Lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent Bookseller, that in no...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." The Revolution was duly recognised as a challenge within each idiom: Samuel Curwen, emigre, justified...

...Lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent Bookseller, that in no...have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries 46 in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter...

...Burke, in his great Speech on Conciliation in 1775, emphasized the popularity of Blackstone in America: "I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England"— that despite the disparity in population. The American upper classes read the Commentaries because,...

...colonies in 1771-72, and Edmund Burke remarked that he had been informed by a leading London bookseller that "they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." When the American Constitution was written during the summer of 1787, there was a widespread view that...

...lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no...Blackstone's "Commentaries" in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that...

...in England itself" (p. viii). We cannot find this in Burke, but we have found a place where he said, "I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." The Works of Edmund Burke, New York, 1872, Harper and Brothers, vol. 1, p. 230 (Speech on Conciliation...

...But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have heen told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of..."Blackstone's Commentaries" in America as in England. The last cause of this disohedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as...