 A boy of twenty, with no previous knowledge of such subjects, cannot understand Coke. It is folly to set him upon such an author. There are propositions in Coke so abstract, and distinctions so nice, and doctrines embracing so many distinctions and qualifications,...  Science for the School and Family: Natural sciences - Page iiiby Worthington Hooker - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 322 pages
...Webster, " with no previous knowledge on such subjects cannot understand Coke. It is folly to set him upon such an author. There are propositions in Coke so...him. Why disgust and discourage a boy by telling him he must break through into his profession through such a wall as this ?" Mr. Webster soon laid aside... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1853 - 390 pages
...propositions in Coke so abstract, and distinctions so nice, and doctrines embracing so many distinctions and qualifications, that it requires an effort not...mature, to understand him. Why disgust and discourage a young man by telling him that he must break into his profession through such a wall as this." He soon... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...propositions in Coke so abstract, and distinctions so nice, and doctrines embracing so many distinctions and qualifications, that it requires an effort not...mature, to understand him. Why disgust and discourage a young man by telling him he must break into his profession through such a wall as this ? " Acting upon... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 pages
...propositions in Coke so abstract, and distinctions so nice, and doctrines embracing so many distinctions and qualifications, that it requires an effort not...mature, to understand him. Why disgust and discourage a young man by telling him he must break into his profession through such a wall as this ? " Acting upon... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...propositions in Coke so abstract, and distinctions so nice, and doctrines embracing so many distinctions and qualifications, that it requires an effort not...mature, to understand him. Why disgust and discourage a young man by telling him he must break into his profession through such a wall as this?' 'Acting upon... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1856 - 386 pages
...propositions in Coke so abstract, and distinctions so nice, and doctrines embracing so many distinctions and qualifications, that it requires an effort not...mature, to understand him. Why disgust and discourage a young man by telling him that he must break into his profession through such a wall as this." He soon... | |
 | John Frost - 1868 - 318 pages
...propositions in Coke so abstract, and distinctions so nice, and doctrines embracing so many distinctions arid qualifications, that it requires an effort not only...mature, to understand him. 'Why disgust and discourage a young man, by telling him he must break into his profession through such a wall as this?" Many of the... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1871 - 68 pages
...twenty, with no previous knowledge on such subjects, cannot understand Coke. It is folly to set him upon such an author. There are propositions in Coke so...him. Why disgust and discourage a boy by telling him he must break into his profession through such a wall as this." — Nevertheless Coke on Littleton... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1856 - 556 pages
...easy, and intelligible writers. A boy of twenty, with no previous knowledge on such subjects, cannot understand Coke. It is folly to set him on such an...and discourage a boy, by telling him that he must bri.ak into his profession, through such a wall as this ? I really often despaired. I thought I never... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1875 - 362 pages
...propositions in Coke so abstract, and distinctions so nice, and doctrines embracing so many distinctions and qualifications, that it requires an effort not...mature, to understand him. Why disgust and discourage a young man by telling him that he must break into his profession through such a wall as this." He soon... | |
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