...alter the ground-work of character, yet tinge, it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which docs more to (|iiickcn and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together...

...not alter the ground-work of character, yet tinge it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. He was bred to the law ; which is, in my opinion,...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,...

...never was there advanced a charge so thoughtless and unwarrantable. " Mr. Grenville," said Burke, " was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in those who are happily born,...

...not alter the groundwork of character, yet tinge it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. } m4 0h q- T r ^Ᏼ alt the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,...

...himself an orator and statesman of the most enlarged research, has not hesitated to declare, that it is " One of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a...understanding than all other kinds of learning put together." f But there is little need to appeal to the testimonies of the living or the dead upon such a topic....

...alter the ground-wtfrk of character, yet tinge it with their own hue. He was bred in a profession. now much is the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,...

...its studies, for he afterwards spoke CHAP. of it as one of the first and noblest of human AD 1765. sciences ; " a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together."* May he not have doubted his success, or felt impatient...

...age. Such a Statesman is thus delineated by the masterly hand of Burke:— " Mr. [George] Grenville was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one...quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of reasoning put together; but, it is not apt, except in persons very happily born,...

...speak of the members of the legal profession. It is Burke, I think, who says of the law, that " it is a science which does more to quicken and invigorate...than all other kinds of learning put together, but which is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind in the same...

...tends to produce a narrowness and obliquity in their modes of thinking. "The law," says Burke, "tends more to quicken and invigorate the understanding,...kinds of learning put together, but it is not apt to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion." This is true, though it is not also...