N this little volume will 1 short biographical notio most renowned Englis reference principally to the earlier and occasionally detailing a few of able "sayings and doings." From Lord Campbell's "Lives o and of "the Chancellors" I have p information; and to those delightfu student is directed, that he may a these illustrious characters in full-dr This work, designed as a schoolhoped, stir the mind of many a y worthy example and tread in the foo men who have from age to age fille in our Courts of Judicature, and greatest benefactors and brightes nation. 64 81 12 97 113 Introducti HILE engaged in prepa sketches for the press, years ago, in to remembrance an e company with the e jurist, the late Mr. John Austin. favourable circumstances, when his intimate friends and connecti into a long and deeply interest home I took notes of what he ha his observations had reference t prudence, I have determined to g After he had been speaking subject of languages and dialects a different turn. My father was Austin's opinion respecting the q ing to the Christian economy : er and nigner principle, superior aw, and having its source from he understood the passage in law to themselves," as he said expression, and could not be impossible for a man to make - being evident that he could at Imposed rule. He further went the much contested subject of hat, in his opinion, there could at it resolved itself into a ques-the bondage of the will to sin ed for a subjection of the will to Christianity, that it is decidedly hat has ever been presented to ts character is entirely unique; y acquainted with history, and e records it gives, must feel that nity has done more to humanize nybody looking into the laws of the emperors of the Antonines alled models of piety and goodvinced of the truth of this. The pale of humanity; the influence › others as you would that they unknown, unfelt; nor is such a found, taken in its true extent, uttered in t who have li harsh and b statute book Sir Samuel no professio the history o 0 |