 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 525 ページ
...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. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that... | |
 | Joseph Story - 2005 - 1408 ページ
...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 branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotioni were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - 2005 - 436 ページ
...dependent) dominions. 1(l Blackstone's position was widely known in North America. Burke reported in 1775: "I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." 17 Friend and foe of slavery alike recognized that the Mansfield decision of 1772 clearly allowed slaves... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1963 - 585 ページ
...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 j letter on your table. He states, that... | |
 | Chris Rodda - 2006 - 507 ページ
...Intent: Blackstone's "influence in America was so great that Edmund Burke told the British Parliament: I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." The reason for pointing out the popularity of Blackstone's in America is, of course, to imply that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 600 ページ
...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... | |
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I 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 to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own... 
