This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...that are bound in plain calf to those that are much gilded and lettered. He garners up his papers with a wonderful appearance of care; ties them in bundles with red tape; and usually has great difficulty to find them when he wants them. Too much particularity has perplexed him; and just so it is with his cases; they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...that are bound in plain calf to those that are much gilded and lettered. He garners up his papers with a wonderful appearance of care; ties them in bundles with red tape; and usually has great difficulty to find them when he wants them. Too much particularity has perplexed him; and just so it is with his cases; they are well assorted, packed and hid away in his mind, but are not easily to be brought forth again without labor. This makes him something of a procrastinator, and rather to delight in new business than finish his old. Pie is, however, much beloved, and affectionately considered by the people. Peter the Great, being at Westminster Hall in term time, and seeing multitudes of people swarming about the courts of law, inquired: "Who are all those busy people?" "Lawyers," was the reply. "Lawyers! why, I have but four in my whole kingdom, and I design to hang two of them as soon as I get home." The only case in which the attorneys had his Satanic majesty on the run is reported in the following verses: The devil came up to the earth one day, And into the court he wended his way, Just as the attorney, with very grave face, Was proceeding to argue the point in a case. Now, a lawyer his majesty never had seen, For to his dominions none ever had been, And he felt very anxious the reason to know Why none had been sent to the regions below. Twas the fault of his agents, his majesty thought, That none of these lawyers had ever been caught, And for his own pleasure he felt a desire, To come to the earth and the reason inquire. Well, the lawyer who rose, with a visage so Made out his opponent a consummate knave; And Satan felt considerably amused To hear the attorney so badly abused. But soon as the speaker had come to a close, The c...
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Wear to the extremeties, cloth bubbled just a bit on back cover, pages tanning, 2 inch tear to inside margin of page 575, else good plus, clean & sound condition without dust jacket. 578pp.
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Fair. 6.5X9.5. News paper clippings pasted to copyright page, pages clean, previous owners book plate and signature on inside of front cover, gilt on spine, corners bumped _PAB_
