Lambert Lilly, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell
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We have found another in the style of this work ♦ Husro gives a list of them, p. 57, note. t GiLbon is one of the very few hisoiical writers of the 18th centu jr, who have stcod before the criticism of the 19th. Niebuhr ackiiowledees " the Jecliae nnd Fall" as auch fQr den Philologen ein herriiches Meister- Weik. — Vunedo toE.Q.IX. 1839.] New School of the CivU Law. 279 itself. It is thoroiifrhly detestable — as bad as bad can be in a didactic, and especialljf an elementary worit — involved, ob...scure, parenthetical, •« cycle and epicycle, orb in orb," There are sen- tences on important and difficult points, requiring the utmost possible precision and clearness, which run down a whole page, winding their almost invisible course through capes and shoals of qualifications, exceptions, obiter dicta^ and so forth, that are absolutely distracting, to a foreigner at least. Some of these vices are, perhaps, inherent in the very nature of a Lehr-buchf which is something between a book and a brief, meant to serve for a text to lecture from in universities; but we suspect that this most profound of jurisconsults is not the most eloquent, and that since nothing more of novelty is to be expected from one whose doctrines' have been so fully given to the world, students naturally seek those by whom they may hope to find new ideas broached, or old ones embelli>hed« Besides, the veteran professor must not forget that the lessons which he has successfully taught, are become the arms of rivals in the hands of his puj^ils, and that the maxim of Napoleon, that It is given to no general to make war prosperously beyoitd a certain number of years, is only a recognition of the inexorable law of succession and equality among the generations of men.
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