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... History of Civilization in England - Página 220por Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 páginas
...the plantations. The colonies have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that... | |
| 1859 - 450 páginas
...devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have nowfallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." The works of Mr. Cohb and Mr. Hurd, of which the first volume only in each case has as yet reached... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 562 páginas
...congress" — at Philadelphia — "were lawyers. But all who read — and most do read — endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 páginas
...congress" — at Philadelphia — " were lawyers. But all who read — and most do read — endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science. I have...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 558 páginas
...that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, ,'ii'i er tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 páginas
...husiness, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many hooks as those on the law exported to th* plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your tahle. He states, that... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 566 páginas
...exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for tbeir own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 páginas
...; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read,...Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that... | |
| James F. Johnston - 1862 - 62 páginas
...* * No books save those of devotion are so generally sent from England thither than on law. I hear they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." In October, 1768, the Massachusetts Assembly resolved, "That all the essential rights, liberties, privileges,... | |
| 1868 - 794 páginas
...that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular doctrine, were so many books as those on law exported to the plantations; the Colonists have...Blackstone's Commentaries' in America as in England." We are reminded of this passage of Burke when we recall the fact that the firm of Little, Brown & Co.,... | |
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