The Edinburgh Review Volume 39 epub

The Edinburgh Review Volume 39 epub

The Edinburgh Review Volume 39 by United States Congressional House

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Author: United States Congressional House
Page Count: 222 pages
Published Date: 16 Jan 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781234287610
Download Link: The Edinburgh Review Volume 39
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...of penetration and sagacity, a singular patience and circumspection in forming his decisions, will be admitted, we suppose, by all who have had an opportunity of observing him in the exercise of his judicial office. But it would be difficult, we conceive, on the other hand, to deny that he more frequently gives proof of caution than of boldness, of subtlety than of vigour in his reasonings--that in the determination of particular cases, he seems too often to exercise his ingenuity in raising up doubts and difficulties, rather than in clearing them away--and, above all, that he confines himself far too rigidly to the decision of the special matters that come before him, without aiming either at the establishment of general principles, and the improvement of the Science he professes, or at the correction of those vices in the constitution or administration of his court, of which he daily hears and sees too much to make it conceivable that he should be ignorant. Whoever, in short, may have been driven to toil in that laboratory, called Mr Vesey junior's Reports, comprised as it is within the very moderate compass of eighteen solid octavos, with various accessary records of a kindred character and spirit, must have looked, we think, in vain for that great and commanding talent and master mind of which the possession of the highest station, and that too for so great a length of time, creates, unavoidably, some expectation. The vast bulk of the collection imposes indeed upon the mind; and a distinct effort must be made in order to prevent a natural, perhaps, but too hasty conclusion, that, because much has been said, much therefore has been proved. Separating, however, merit from size in these miscellanies, we shall find, in the first place, a...

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