 | Walter Scott - 2001 - Liczba stron: 388
...surrounded with books, the best editions of the best authors, and in particular, an admirable collection of classics. * These,' said Pleydell, ' are my tools...architect.' But Mannering was chiefly delighted with the 100 view from the windows, which commanded that incomparable prospect of the ground between Edinburgh... | |
 | Jean Brissaud - 2001 - Liczba stron: 636
...Variety and Unity of History (Address at the World's Congress of Arts and Science, St. Louis, 1904). A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.—Sir WALTBB SCOTT, "Guy Mannering," c. XXXVII. CONTENTS EDITORIAL PREFACE BY ERNST FREUND... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1892 - Liczba stron: 738
...surrounded with books, the best editions of the best authors, and in particular an admirable collection of classics. " These, " said Pleydell, " are my tools...with the view from the windows, which commanded that incomparable prospect of the ground between Edinburgh and the sea, — the Frith of Forth, with its... | |
 | Lord Macmillan - 1938 - Liczba stron: 300
...surrounded with books, the best editions of the best authors and in particular an admirable collection of classics. ' These ', said Pleydell, ' are my tools...these he may venture to call himself an architect.' " I enjoy for the moment the privilege which the lawyer is so rarely accorded of being as irrelevant... | |
 | 2007 - Liczba stron: 180
...authors, and, in particular, an admirable collection of the classics. "These", says Pleydell, "are LF 8 my tools of trade. A lawyer without history or literature...these, he may venture to call himself an architect." Erskine had no knowledge of the Greek or Latin classics. He had not, like Brougham, Mackintosh, Romilly,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1904 - Liczba stron: 564
...and knowledge of his professional brethren, for does he not insist in Guy Mannering (ch. 37) that: "A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic,...these, he may venture to call himself an architect." It is a question of internal arrangement and economy whether these various subjects be taught in the... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - 1901 - Liczba stron: 186
...who knew him best, know best what in his death this town has lost. "A lawyer," says Sir Walter Scott, "without history or literature, is a mechanic, a mere...these, he may venture to call himself an architect." Mr. Fishback was no mechanic in his profession, but he was an architect. The different domains of knowledge... | |
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. 
