Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-08-11

true statements Of law and facts-inyiolably
keeping confidential trusts and relations
never departing from justice aud honesty in
words or deeds, and faithfully and ably fulfil
ling all his lawful engagements. Rectitude
and failhfulness .must always be in alliance
with genius and close application.
1t is said Of Justice Croke, that &C He was OF
a most prompt invention and apprehension,
which was accompanied with rare memory,
BY means whereof, and through has sedulous
and indefdiigable industry, he attained TO a
profound science and judgment in the laws OF
the land and to a singular intelligence of the
true reasons, thereof" Of Parsons It is men
toned, I. that his infancy was marked by men,
tai labor and study, rather than by puerile a
musements that his youth. was season Of
persevering acquisition instead of pleasure
and that, when he became man, he seemed
to possess the wisdom and experience of those
who had been men long before him. And, in
deed, those of us who have seen him lay open
his vast stores OF knowledge in later life, un-
aided by recent requirement, and relying more
UPON memory than research, can account for
his greatness only by supposing patience Of
labour in youth, which almost exhausted the
sources of information, and left him to aci
rather than study at a period when others are
but beginning 10 acquire. &C. J. Parker.
Lord Coke says, g would have our student
follow the advice given in these ancient YER
ses, for the good spending Of the day;
Sex horas somno, totidem dcs legibus Gquis.
Qjiatuor orabis, DIES epulisque duas.
Quod supercst ultra sacrs largre camaenis.'
Translated thus
Six hours in sleep, in laws grave study six
-Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix
Or as Sir William Jones has it,
Six hours to law, to soothing slumbers seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all TO Heaven.
/ &C Lord C.. J. Hale, for two years after he
came TO the inn of court, studied sixteen hours
day; however his lordship added, that by
this intense application he almost brought
himself 10 his grave, though he was Of a very
strong constitution, and after reduced himself
to eight hours, but that he would not advise
any body to so much-that he thought six
hours day with attention and constancy was
sufficient
shall end this compilation with two cx-
tracts shelving the necessary connection be-
tween the theory and practice OF the law, and
the importance TO every practitioner Of under
Standing the principles and reasons of II.
"If practice be the whole he is taught,
practice must be the whole he will ever know ;
if he be uninsLructed in the elements and first
principles upon which the rule OF practice is
founded, the least variation from established
precedents will totally distract and bewitler
him: ala lea scripta est is the utmost his knowl-
edge will arrive at he must never aspire to
form, and seldom expect to comprehend, any
arguments drawn priori, from the spirit Of
the laws aud the natural foundations Of JUS
tice.n 81. Com. 80.
"Ratio est ANNA legis; for then we are
said to knoao the law, when we apprehond the
reason of the law; that is, when we bring the
reason of the law so to our oun reason, that
we perfectly understand it as our own; and
then, and never before, have we such an ex-
cellcnt and inseparable property and owner
ship therein as we can neither lose it nor any
man take it from us, and will direct US (the
learning of the law is so chained together) in
many other cases. But if by your study and
industry you make not The reason of the law
your o,ra, it is not possible for you to retain it
in your nsemOyy;'' and with scire and sequi,
will conclude" 2Coke on Lift.
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