Miscellanies Critical, Imaginative and Juridical
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ISBN13: 9780217236225
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEMOIR OF JOHN WILLIAM SMITH, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. But the fair guerdon when -we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Milton.?Lycidas. The name of John William Smith, barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, now appears, possibly for the first time, before nineteen-twentieths of the readers of Black- wood's Magazine. It is that, however, of a remarkable and eminent man, just cut off in his prime, before he had completed his thirty-seventh year: having as yet lain little more than a twelvemonth in his grave, to which he had been borne by a few of his sorrowful and admiring friends, on the 24th of December 1845. Another eminent member of the English bar, Sir William Follett, belonging to the same Inn of Court, and also cut off in the prime of life, while glittering in the zenith of his celebrity and success, had been buried only five months previously. I endeavoured to give the readers of this Magazine, in January 1846, some account of the character of that distinguished person; and Mr Smith, learning that I was engaged upon the task, with morbid anxiety repeatedly begged me to show him what I was writing, up to within a few weeks of his own decease: a request with which, for reasons which will become obvious to the reader of this sketch, I declined to comply. With Sir William Follett's name all the world is acquainted: yet I venture to think that the name of John William Smith has greater claims upon the attention of readers of biography. His character and career will, it is believed, be found permanently and intrinsically interesting, ?at once affecting, inspiriting, and admonitory. He fell a martyr to intense study, just as that competent and severe body of j.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217236225 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217236227 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $23.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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