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Excerpt from Abridgment of Elementary Law: Embodying the General Principles, Rules, and Definitions of Law Together With the Common Maxims and Rules of Equity Jurisprudence, Embracing the Subjects Contained in a Regular Law Course, Collected and Arranged So as to Be Easily Acquired by Students, Co
When Mr. Wilberforce asked the advice of Lord Eldon as. To the course to be pursued by the young Grants in their legal studies, the advice was, to live the life of a hermit, and work like a horse. That has been, and no doubt still is, sound advice in England, to make a great lawyer; and in some measure it is, and perhaps will be more so, in the United States. But we are a different race of people, or rather a like race under different circumstances. The la bor of the profession is not divided here as it is in England, and probably never will be the consequence is, that to make a great lawyer one may have much less learned lore, and must have much more knowledge of men and things in. General.
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