A Discourse on the Life, Character and Public Services of Ambrose Spencer, Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; Delivered by Request Before the Bar of the City of Albany, January 5, 1849
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A Discourse on the Life, Character and Public Services of Ambrose Spencer, Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; Delivered by Request Before the Bar of the City of Albany, January 5, 1849

A Discourse on the Life, Character and Public Services of Ambrose Spencer, Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; Delivered by Request Before the Bar of the City of Albany, January 5, 1849


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... might have felt at times, on account of the slowprocess of probation through which he was obliged to pass, still he was resolute and content to keep steadily to the path which he knew would bring him out right in the end. We can well believe that it was a severe trial to his temper and his resolution, when he found, after having passed in an office in Connecticut full one half of the period required in this state for clerkship and study in order to his admission to the bar here, that he was not one step nearer the goal then than when he had begun his studies. Nor was it a small aggravation of the discomforts of his position, that his removal to an office in this state involved the necessity of a long and painful separation from his youthful bride. She was to be left, for a considerable period, to the protection of her parents. And yet, painful and trying as all this was, it is easy to see that this very occurrence, adding as it did a year and a half to the term of his studies free from the distractions of business, finally brought him to the bar a much better instructed and more thorough lawyer than he would otherwise have been. And I am apt to believe that, in like manner, this early marriage, apparently so untimely and inauspicious, by cutting him off thus early from the allurements of society--not to say from fashionable dissipation--so irresistible, so absorbing, and oftentimes so destructive to young men, even of the best dispositions and inclined to the most innocent habits; by the stimulus to study and effort which it afforded; and by the serious aspect which it gave, almost prematurely, to life, and its business and duties, is to be looked upon as having effectively helped him forward in his course, and aided him in making higher attainments, espe...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217760188
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021776018X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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