 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 דפים
...the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. " Of this state of society, the great works of Kent and Story were, at a later period, the natural... | |
 | James F. Johnston - 1862 - 62 דפים
...* * No books save those of devotion are so generally sent from England thither than on law. I hear they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." In October, 1768, the Massachusetts Assembly resolved, "That all the essential rights, liberties, privileges,... | |
 | 1868 - 794 דפים
...on law exported to the plantations; the Colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use ; I hear that they have sold nearly...Blackstone's Commentaries' in America as in England." We are reminded of this passage of Burke when we recall the fact that the firm of Little, Brown & Co.,... | |
 | John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - 1863 - 236 דפים
...have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they 8t°JJ?!s|Com" liave sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England," &c. ' er esWe all understand, though unskilled in the law, the immense influence wielded by Blackstone... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1865 - 352 דפים
...upon the position of the people with regard to intelligenee, he quotes Governor Gage to the effeet, that " all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law," and proeeeds himself to charaeterise them as "aeute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1865 - 350 דפים
...upon the position of the people with regard to intelligence, he quotes Governor Gage to the effect, that " all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law," and proceeds himself to characterise them as "acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 דפים
...the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as iu England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1871 - 426 דפים
...upon the position of the people with regard to intelligence, he quotes Governor Gage to the effect, that " all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law," and proceeds himself to characterise them as " acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 דפים
...the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as...that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful cbicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. The smartness of debate... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 דפים
...plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that ther have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries...that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smattercrs in law; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade... | |
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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... 
