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... Philadelphia Bar . BY DAVID PAUL BROWN .り MAGNUS DICENDI LABOR - MAGNA RES , MAGNA DIGNITAS , SUMMA AUTEM GRATIA . " - CICERO . VOL . I. PHILADELPHIA : ROBERT H. SMALL , LAW BOOKSELLER , NO . 21 SOUTH SIXTH STREET . 1856 . Entered ...
... Philadelphia Bar . BY DAVID PAUL BROWN .り MAGNUS DICENDI LABOR - MAGNA RES , MAGNA DIGNITAS , SUMMA AUTEM GRATIA . " - CICERO . VOL . I. PHILADELPHIA : ROBERT H. SMALL , LAW BOOKSELLER , NO . 21 SOUTH SIXTH STREET . 1856 . Entered ...
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... Philadelphia - Ad- mitted upon his certificate of " utter barrister " to practice in Supreme Court of Pennsylvania — A man of learning and a safe judge - Upon the bench , from 1791 , until 1799 , as an associate - Importance of legal ...
... Philadelphia - Ad- mitted upon his certificate of " utter barrister " to practice in Supreme Court of Pennsylvania — A man of learning and a safe judge - Upon the bench , from 1791 , until 1799 , as an associate - Importance of legal ...
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... Philadelphia bar is remembered - De- scription of Mr. Ingersoll's person - Dress - Manners , & c . - Remarks upon the dress of bar generally - Harmony and friendship — No jea- lousies - Social and convivial parties — A band of brothers ...
... Philadelphia bar is remembered - De- scription of Mr. Ingersoll's person - Dress - Manners , & c . - Remarks upon the dress of bar generally - Harmony and friendship — No jea- lousies - Social and convivial parties — A band of brothers ...
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... Philadelphia - Arrives on 15th June , 1783 - Enamoured of republican institutions - Takes the oath of alle- giance - Engages in preparing for admission to the bar - Admitted in 1785 Prepares his Reports , and contributes to literary ...
... Philadelphia - Arrives on 15th June , 1783 - Enamoured of republican institutions - Takes the oath of alle- giance - Engages in preparing for admission to the bar - Admitted in 1785 Prepares his Reports , and contributes to literary ...
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Or, Forty Years Full Practice at the Philadelphia Bar David Paul Brown. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF DAVID PAUL BROWN . THE subject of this Memoir was born in the City of Philadelphia , on the 28th of September , in the year seventeen hundred ...
Or, Forty Years Full Practice at the Philadelphia Bar David Paul Brown. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF DAVID PAUL BROWN . THE subject of this Memoir was born in the City of Philadelphia , on the 28th of September , in the year seventeen hundred ...
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Page 163 - What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 174 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Page 181 - And he answered, and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these, which hear the word of God, and do it.
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