Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-12-26

sly OF hfng undivided attention. concentrating all your
powers w sngeness purpose
employment qua that profession
in than one ne do hs ee eaaes a
that allotted to human existence when protraced
excess light and miscellaneous readng which the youthful
a excitement a ss By the
in to be thought the scholar universal
in homey parlance, Jack all good at none
but the prodigy of universal scholar existed unless
the youthful Cncon formed one-and presume
of fancy than et in the history of his almost supeuman
ments.
Indulge th such and cmerca hope suppose you
can ever high places in possion if negecng
from the track You oier away your time in
puckng the wers of science which should be gathering
and fruits do
and ncssany be turning and pouring the of the law
mind the dy your may pleasuraby pro-
hay emPlqed reading history especially Hume's History of
much behves the accomplished lawyer metaph
3 OF in T those res
crimes deaed by the great master and high priest Of nature,
subodnatet the reading and study the may
make hmsdfa respectable lawyer without being historian,
greatest proficiency poor figure at the bar with
H "a a g heI legal 10 this legal learn
exempted by our laws from that long
upon candidates for the profession Of ou sr sa @s and
may become licensed lawyer with limited and superficial
will be empty and Improbable honor You
atone for the deficiency previous preparations by study
y desirable that you should be read and thoroughly quail
fed before to the barr but if that be-
1t possible in this way become great lawyer
ns Bgths possibility should not make choose the aena
its reconcile submit driven
embrace 1t by the force of circumstances.
will proceed deveope briefly, my plan
the law, in all other departments of learning
sysems-By Lectures and by Examinations Opinions dd
ed as to which of the eligible shall adopt
the latter both from necessity and because
a and other engagement deny the time and opportunity, if
had the ability necessary for the preparation of
to the performance of such task guiless
ty or the presumption that could supply thing
ablp
by the master hand of Sir William Blackstone to a
merriam chair and those of distinguished counman
pose could only equal but supass these distinguished
ries OF the law both nse and matter thoroughly convinced
OF Its lnu and that reading, and being examined the
books which have will be profitable my pupils
thing possible have the lecture system
alone and uncombned with examinations necessarily
mathematician by reading from the book the
saons of Euclid and nothing make divine by read
ing the student of divinity book nothing more as
to qualify for the practice of the law
d, require both you must combine with it to
make oany and with examinations comparatively
useless For example, the student first and
then hear the lecture hear the lecture and then read the
same Sgbe-or the text and lecture be the he reads for
himself and hears read by his professor That the student should
read first obvious because the cen
any discourse makes on the mind ola nearer who has previous
1anance with the subject This the most natural oer
experience and all anaoges of instruction from the alphabet up
should be- the tep % read aa to ax o or t
chair what he has already read and sudesupposng the
lecture be the lecture supDosnp him to
have read the subject Or should
him critically upon his reading whatever may
pronounce favor OF the aewhch is the
The Lecture must necessarily be compendous
allows time for the mind of the pause
opportunity the teacher adapt his instruction
pupil He passes rapidly along from proposition propositions
from subectto subject wholly regardless of what his pupils know
Of what they
the lecture he has made confused, ephemera
the mind that scarcely hour birth
On he other hand the by
examinations enabled and deepen upon
OF that which already specifically hnperecty
by opposite and well timed hints illustrations
explain what dark perpexng and difficulties
conduct his pupil step by STEP and by gadaons
from principle to principle until he compasses knowledge
the outlines qualify him be his teacher
most any system of instruction accomplish.
In conciuslon gentlemen allow recommend
bua and attentive pusa and gent study of the bb book
which contains the inspired oaces OF God book which that
coPshed and able professor Mr. Hoffman,
III his course OF studies Independent of the divinity
and the character of its revelations, have high authority
p Scholar profound lawyer able Judge, and great good man.
or M jones' Tor saying that
ed only as the work unnsped exces all net
only the antiquity its history of and the
put In the profundty OF its wisdom, the of
splendor ubmity its poetry, pahos
quenceOi It's religious doctrines, and their
consequences, Ut Is not is this suitable
TO sPakbu apart from its sacred mysteries
naXlns and practical pcep the trauscendant
to man In his temporal relations, nothing future DESTINY
ancng which stand in high relief those which iucucate the
y and Importance of sefnowlcdge and segovernmen ard point
the way to their attainment The sages of antiquity taught that
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