The book Some Old Scots Judges : Anecdotes And Impressions was written by author Gray, W. Forbes (William Forbes), 1874-1950 Here you can read free online of Some Old Scots Judges : Anecdotes And Impressions book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Some Old Scots Judges : Anecdotes And Impressions a good or bad book?
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At Eton, too, he acquired a " predilection for English modes and manners which marked his conduct and con- versation in the after-part of life." ^ His behaviour seems to have been exemplary ; and at least one Eton boy never forgot his kind- ness. The story goes that an awkward country lad, named Hallam, who afterwards became Dean of Bristol and Canon of Windsor, came up to stand for a scholarship on the foundation. Lodged in the same house as Dalrymple, the latter became attached to him, and so... materially helped him to pass his examinations that Hallam " confessed many years after, with tears in his eyes, that next to the providence of God, he ■• Ramsay's Scotland and Scotsmen, i. 394. 126 SOME OLD SCOTS JUDGES owed all that he had to the philanthropy of Sir David Dalrymple." ^ On leaving Eton, Dalrymple proceeded to Utrecht to study the civil law, a session tinder the famous Dutch masters of jurisprudence being then considered an indispensable qualifica- tion for every young man who wished to make his mark at the Scottish Bar.
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