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There he lived, among the savages, in peace and freedom until the arrival of Winthrop and his devotees, to encounter persecution from those who themselves had fled from it. The Lord's Brethren, he averred, were worse than the Lord's Bishops Blackstone's phrase. Janet, of course, had never heard of Blackstone, some of whose experiences Insall had evidently used.
The offence that most closely touches women is rape. The punishment of this in Blackstone's day was death ; but in the next century the death penalty was repealed and transportation for life substituted. The saddest blot on a presumably Christian civilisation connected with this matter is the so-called "age of legal consent."
Dutt compares it, both for length and variety of material, to the sermons of Jeremy Taylor and Hooker, Locke's and Hobbes's books of Philosophy, Blackstone's Commentaries, Percy's Ballads, and the writings of Newman, Pusey, and Keble, all done into blank verse and incorporated with Paradise Lost.
Swiftly now I move across the border into manhood a serious, eager, restless manhood. It was the fashion of the young those days. I spent a summer of hard work in the fields. Evenings I read the books which Mr. Wright had loaned to me, Blackstone's Commentaries and Greenleaf on Evidence and a translation by Doctor Bowditch of LaPlace's Mécanique Celeste. The latter I read aloud.
I read several works on Law and Government, including Puffendorf's Law of Nature, Grotius on the Laws of Peace and War, Bodin on Government, Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, Blackstone's Commentaries, and Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium. I had read works on Anatomy, Physiology and Medicine, when I could get hold of them, from the time when I was only twelve years old.
After stating that in no other country in the world was law so generally studied, and referring to the fact that as many copies of Blackstone's Commentaries had been sold in America as in England, he added: "This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources.
"And I also have my studies," said Hoffland; "I think I will return with you, Mr. Denis." "You came to stay, Charles! You shall both stay," said Mowbray, "and I will give you Blackstone's " "No, really, Ernest," said Hoffland, with a business air which made Lucy laugh. "And indeed I must return," said Denis, sighing. "Ah, gentlemen, gentlemen!" said Mowbray, "you pay a fashionable call.
Among his assets are Kirkham's Grammar, The Pilgrim's Progress, the Lives of Washington and Henry Clay, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Othello's Speech to the Senate, Marc Antony's address and a part of Webster's reply to Hayne. A man came along the other day and sold him a barrel of rubbish for two bits. In it he found a volume of Blackstone's Commentaries.
"The original term was lunatic, in accordance with Blackstone's definition; but in medical science the terms insanity and mental alienation have taken its place." "Doesn't he act peculiarly? He does not seem to know we are present. What I cannot understand is, how he knows enough to get anything to eat." "That is a peculiar thing in nature.
The boy swallowed hard, straightened his shoulders, and looked his questioner in the face. "Nowhere, sir not now. My father hates learning, and I work in the fields. I am very much obliged to you for the books, and had I best buy Blackstone with the two dollars?" The other smiled. "No, no, not Blackstone. Blackstone's frippery. You've got old Coke.
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