John George Phillimore
Published: 2015-07-04
Total Pages: 68
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Excerpt from Thoughts on Law Reform: And the Law Review, (February, 1847) I have often had occasion to wonder at the ignorance sometimes affected, but more frequently real, of first principles among men to whom no candid person would refuse the praise of much sagacity and perseverance. Wide views, however, and a disposition to generalize, have rarely at any time, or in any class, been the means of attaining eminence in this commercial country; and it certainly is not in the present age, and among lawyers, that we can expect to find knowledge preferred to wealth, and self improvement to mere technical distinctions. On topics of jurisprudence Tidd and Saunders are silent altogether. Little is to be gained concerning them from the doctrina placitandi, and if any rational being not compelled by the iron grasp of necessity, devotes his time to the perusal of Coke, it can only be from the motive which made the Spartan youth flock round a drunken Helot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.