 Learning, my learned brethren, is a very good thing. I should be the last to undervalue it, having done my share of quotation from the Year Books. But it is liable to lead us astray. The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed, as it has been...  Report of the ... Annual Meeting - Página 60por Harvard Law School. Association (1886- ). Meeting - 1895Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Kirby - 1895 - 414 páginas
...Mr. Justice Holmes remarked : " Learning is a very good thing. I should be the last to undervalue it. But it is liable to lead us astray. The law, so far...depends on learning, is indeed, as it has been called, a government of the living by the dead. To a very considerable extent, no doubt, it is inevitable that... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - 1920 - 336 páginas
...thing. I should be the last to undervalue it, having done my share of quotation from the Year Books. But it is liable to lead us astray. The law, so far...called, the government of the living by the dead. * From Speeches (1913), Little, Brown, & Co. To a very considerable extent no doubt it is inevitable... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - 1920 - 340 páginas
...thing. I should be the last to undervalue it, having done my share of quotation from the Year Books. But it is liable to lead us astray. The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed, as it has beenj called, the government of the living by the dead.} * From Speeches (1913), Little, Brown, & Co.... | |
 | Harold Stearns - 1922 - 588 páginas
...no one has been more cautious than Justice Holmes in warning us not to expect too much from law. " The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed,...called, the government of the living by the dead. It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times. As law embodies beliefs... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1896 - 716 páginas
...should be the last to undervalue it, having done, I hope, my share of quotation from the year books. But it is liable to lead us astray. The law, so far...depends on learning, is indeed, as it has been called, a government of the living by the dead. To a very considerable extent no doubt it is inevitable that... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1994 - 548 páginas
...history of a nation, but this only meant that law involved genetic growth rather than logical sequence. "The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed,...called, the government of the living by the dead," Holmes wrote. "But the present," he continued, "has a right to govern itself so far as it can." Legal... | |
 | David Henry Burton - 1998 - 186 páginas
...remarks: "Learning and Science."40 Here essentially is what he said: The law, so far as it depends of learning, is indeed, as it has been called, the government of the living by the dead. . . . But the present has a right to govern itself as far as it can. ... I hope that the time is coming... | |
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