 I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own...  Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802 - Page 295edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1886 - 474 pages
...law. Nowhere has his work been more widely read than in America. ' I hear,' said Burke, in 1 77o, ' that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." It has been edited and abridged in America nearly as often as in England ; it suggested to Chancellor... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1908 - 714 pages
...Plantations. The Colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." 3 Professor Thayer states the number of copies taken in this country at one thousand. 4 An American... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1887 - 250 pages
...plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." And a little later he adds: "This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack,... | |
 | Daniel Dorchester - Christianity - 1888 - 854 pages
...plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's...Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks this disposition very particularly. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 312 pages
...in the American trade was tracts of popular devotion, and next, law books. He quoted General Gage, that "all the people in his government are lawyers or smatterers in the law, and that in Boston they have been enabled by successful chicane wholly to evade many parts... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...plantations. The colonists have now fallen 25 into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's...states, that all the people in his government are 30 lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane,... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 398 pages
...way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Black15 stone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage...that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful 20 chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. The smartness of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1894 - 120 pages
...of printing them for their own use. . I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Black15 stone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage...that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful 20 chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. The smartness of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1894 - 126 pages
...they have sold nearly as many of Black15 stone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Grage marks out this disposition very particularly in a...that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful 20 chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. The smartness of... | |
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