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... Student's Object HINT II.- Time for Study HINT III.- ... ... : What to Study , and How HINT IV.- Office Study ... Student may test his Learning and Skill 34 HINT VI.- PREFACE . To students , the hints of a fellow.
... Student's Object HINT II.- Time for Study HINT III.- ... ... : What to Study , and How HINT IV.- Office Study ... Student may test his Learning and Skill 34 HINT VI.- PREFACE . To students , the hints of a fellow.
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... students , does not think it needful , therefore , to say more than that he is and has long been a student himself . To non - students , however ( by far the larger class ) , the author would address an earnest exhortation to listen ...
... students , does not think it needful , therefore , to say more than that he is and has long been a student himself . To non - students , however ( by far the larger class ) , the author would address an earnest exhortation to listen ...
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... buried there in the slough . He who yearns for the honors and emolu- ments of the legal profession must not stand idle , or he will get naught but disappointment and disgrace . Let all non - students who would vi . PREFACE .
... buried there in the slough . He who yearns for the honors and emolu- ments of the legal profession must not stand idle , or he will get naught but disappointment and disgrace . Let all non - students who would vi . PREFACE .
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Edward Francis Slack. and disgrace . Let all non - students who would fain reap the professional harvest without the labour of seed sowing and tillage remember the story of a certain cat that longed for the fishes which it saw swimming ...
Edward Francis Slack. and disgrace . Let all non - students who would fain reap the professional harvest without the labour of seed sowing and tillage remember the story of a certain cat that longed for the fishes which it saw swimming ...
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... students , the author includes unarticled as well as articled clerks . These have his special sympathy . Let them follow the counsel he has here written for their use , and those of them ( alas ! how vast the number ! ) whose lot is now ...
... students , the author includes unarticled as well as articled clerks . These have his special sympathy . Let them follow the counsel he has here written for their use , and those of them ( alas ! how vast the number ! ) whose lot is now ...
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Page 9 - To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth! And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 9 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture and mean array.
Page 8 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and...
Page 21 - Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the like. For a man may have an estate in them, either to him and his heirs, or for life, or for a term of years, or during pleasure...
Page 8 - God ! mcthiuks it were a happy life, " To be DO better than a homely swain ;" For, of a truth, (quoting Shakspeare's description of a humble rustic — quite applicable to our own times, if, for
Page 12 - Stops on a sudden, looks npon the ground, " Then lays his finger on his temple straight; " Springs out into fast gait; then stops again, " Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts " His eye against the moon : in most strange postures