A Book About Lawyers (Illustrated) John Cordy Jeaffreson Author
by John Cordy Jeaffreson
2021-04-11 09:27:02
A Book About Lawyers (Illustrated) John Cordy Jeaffreson Author
by John Cordy Jeaffreson
2021-04-11 09:27:02
• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.• “Whatever its drawbacks, the system which encouraged the young barrister to marr...
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• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.• “Whatever its drawbacks, the system which encouraged the young barrister to marry on a modest income, and make his wife 'happy in chambers,' must have had special advantages. In their Inn the husband was near every source of diversion for which he greatly cared, and the wife was surrounded by the friends of either sex in whose society she took most pleasure—friends who, like herself, 'lived in the Inn,' or in one of the immediately adjacent streets. In 'hall' he dined and drank wine with his professional compeers and the wits of the bar: the 'library' supplied him not only with law books, but with poems and dramas, with merry trifles written for the stage, and satires fresh from the Row; 'the chapel'—or if he were a Templer, 'the church'—was his habitual place of worship, where there were sittings for his wife and children as well as for himself; on the walks and under the shady trees of 'the garden' he sauntered with his own, or, better still, a friend's wife, criticising the passers, describing the new comedy, or talking over the last ball given by a judge's lady. At times those gardens were pervaded by the calm of collegiate seclusion, but on 'open days' they were brisk with life.”
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