 | 1900 - 350 pages
...Mannering his library, full of the best editions of the best authors, said : " These are my tools of trade. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic...these, he may venture to call himself an architect. " Whatever one may think of Mr. John Morley as a politician, there can be no question of his capacity... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 728 pages
...serenity. Though his fame did not travel far, it did strike deep. " A lawyer," says Sir Walter Scott, "without history or literature, is a mechanic, a mere...these, he may venture to call himself an architect." Mr. Fishback was no mechanic in his profession ; he was an architect. The different domains of knowledge... | |
 | Adrian Hoffman Joline - Autographs - 1902 - 364 pages
...paper, and some of them have made important contributions to literature. Sir Walter Scott says that "a lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...he may venture to call himself an architect." But the saying that the law is a jealous mistress is a truism; and few men may achieve success at the bar... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...when Forests are rended ; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded. Pibroch of Donald Dhu. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Gny Mannering. Chap. xxxvii. Bluid is thicker than water.1 Chap. xxxviii. It 's no fish ye 're buying,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...when . Forests are rended; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded. pn,roeh of Donald />*ยป. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Guy Mannering. Chap, xxxtli. Bluid is thicker than water.1 Chap, xxxtlii. It 's no fish ye 're buying,... | |
 | Association of American Universities. Conference - Education, Higher - 1905 - 608 pages
...in particular an admirable collection of classics, Mr. Pleydell says: "A lawyer without history and literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if...he may venture to call himself an architect." But as a result of the circumstances under which legal education has developed in this country there is... | |
 | Law - 1904 - 766 pages
...particular an admirable collection of classics. " These, " said Pleydell, " are my tools of trade. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...these, he may venture to call himself an architect." The eloquence of Loughborough was that of a cultured scholar. Like Gibbon he admired Pascal, and, when... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1908 - 448 pages
...in particular, an admirable collection of classics. "These," said Pleydell, "are my tools of trade. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...these, he may venture to call himself an architect." the ground between Edinburgh and the sea ; the Firth of Forth, with its islands ; the embayment which... | |
 | Elma Story - 1909 - 480 pages
...Mannering his library, full of the best editions of the best authors, said, 'These are my tools of trade. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic...these, he may venture to call himself an architect.' Whatever one may think of Mr. John Morley as a politician, there can be no question of his capacity... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1910 - 404 pages
...catch up with the Supreme Court. How can one read the decisions and read anything else? Scott said: "A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...these he may venture to call himself an architect." If we would be real lawyers we must have some time within which to read something else besides law.... | |
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. 
