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Sketch Of The Life Of The Great Earl Of Mansfield.
in question , and by consulting with persons eminently skilled in that particular branch of legal lore , may , with a very small stock of real knowledge of his own , express himself with a great appearance of extensive and recondite erudition . This , hotvever , can be the case but seldom , the calls upon a Chief Justice of the King ' s Bench for a full exertion of all his natural and acquired endoAvments being incessant . There is hardly a day of business in his Courtin
, which a disclosure of his knowledge , or of his want of it , is not forced from him . Considering his Lordship ' s decisions separately , it will appear , that , on all occasions , he Avas . perfectly master of the case before him , and apprised of every principle of IaAV , and every a [ judication of the Courts , immediately or remotely applicable to it .
Considering them collectively , they will be found to form a complete code of jurisprudence on some of the most important branches of our IaAV ; a system founded on principles equally liberal and just , admirably suited to the genius ancl circumstances of the age , and happily blending the venerable doctrines of the old law with the learning and refinement of modern times ; the Avork of a mind noblifted
bMay g y ture , and informed with every kind of learning which could seri'e for use and ornament . It was not on great occasions only that his Lordship ' s talents were conspicuous : they were equally discoverable in the common business of the Court . Par negotiis , neque supra , Avas never more applicable than to the discernmentperseveranceabilitiesand
good-, , , humour with which he conducted himself in that part of his office . The late Earl of Sandwich said of him , ' that his talents were more for common use , and more at his finger ends , than those of any other person he had known . ' But his highest praise is , that his private virtues Avere alloAved by all , and his personal integrity was never called in question . He resigned his office on the 3 d of June 17 SS .
Developement Of The Views Of The French Nation.
DEVELOPEMENT OF THE VIEWS OF THE FRENCH NATION .
EXTRACTED FROlf THE VALUBF . E WQlltCOF MATTHIAS KOOPS , ESQ , ON THAT SUBJECT . JIICH-Y DtSEVIN-G TI 1 K ATTENTION Or UIUTOMS AT THIS JMl'OHTAST CKISIS . This itwrh is accompamedwith maps of the Rhine , Maest , and Scheldt } from the survey oj M . Kaops . TN the refgn of Louis the Fourteenth a systematic plan tvas devised
A for the aggrandisement of France and the diminution of the power of England . On that system of aggrandisement there . was but one mind ; but two violent factions arose about the means . The first was for obtaining their object by acquiring an ascendency on the continent . The latter , which proved ultimately the most powerful , wished France to direct her attention solely to " her marine , to feed it by an increase of commerce , to engage the maritime nations of Europe in her interests , and thereby to overpower England on her own element . They contended that it was England which deranged the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Sketch Of The Life Of The Great Earl Of Mansfield.
in question , and by consulting with persons eminently skilled in that particular branch of legal lore , may , with a very small stock of real knowledge of his own , express himself with a great appearance of extensive and recondite erudition . This , hotvever , can be the case but seldom , the calls upon a Chief Justice of the King ' s Bench for a full exertion of all his natural and acquired endoAvments being incessant . There is hardly a day of business in his Courtin
, which a disclosure of his knowledge , or of his want of it , is not forced from him . Considering his Lordship ' s decisions separately , it will appear , that , on all occasions , he Avas . perfectly master of the case before him , and apprised of every principle of IaAV , and every a [ judication of the Courts , immediately or remotely applicable to it .
Considering them collectively , they will be found to form a complete code of jurisprudence on some of the most important branches of our IaAV ; a system founded on principles equally liberal and just , admirably suited to the genius ancl circumstances of the age , and happily blending the venerable doctrines of the old law with the learning and refinement of modern times ; the Avork of a mind noblifted
bMay g y ture , and informed with every kind of learning which could seri'e for use and ornament . It was not on great occasions only that his Lordship ' s talents were conspicuous : they were equally discoverable in the common business of the Court . Par negotiis , neque supra , Avas never more applicable than to the discernmentperseveranceabilitiesand
good-, , , humour with which he conducted himself in that part of his office . The late Earl of Sandwich said of him , ' that his talents were more for common use , and more at his finger ends , than those of any other person he had known . ' But his highest praise is , that his private virtues Avere alloAved by all , and his personal integrity was never called in question . He resigned his office on the 3 d of June 17 SS .
Developement Of The Views Of The French Nation.
DEVELOPEMENT OF THE VIEWS OF THE FRENCH NATION .
EXTRACTED FROlf THE VALUBF . E WQlltCOF MATTHIAS KOOPS , ESQ , ON THAT SUBJECT . JIICH-Y DtSEVIN-G TI 1 K ATTENTION Or UIUTOMS AT THIS JMl'OHTAST CKISIS . This itwrh is accompamedwith maps of the Rhine , Maest , and Scheldt } from the survey oj M . Kaops . TN the refgn of Louis the Fourteenth a systematic plan tvas devised
A for the aggrandisement of France and the diminution of the power of England . On that system of aggrandisement there . was but one mind ; but two violent factions arose about the means . The first was for obtaining their object by acquiring an ascendency on the continent . The latter , which proved ultimately the most powerful , wished France to direct her attention solely to " her marine , to feed it by an increase of commerce , to engage the maritime nations of Europe in her interests , and thereby to overpower England on her own element . They contended that it was England which deranged the