Download or read book Sir Robert Chambers written by Thomas M. Curley and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-century British empire. This book is the first authoritative biography of Chambers and is also the first major contribution in decades to historical scholarship on Johnson. It demonstrates Chambers's important role in early English legal education, in Samuel Johnson's life and political thinking, and in the formation of British India during a period of active cultural exchange between East and West. The cooperation of Chambers's descendants and the discovery of all his judicial notebooks have given Curley access to a splendid archival collection of rare documents about Sir Robert's private life and public career. Curley adds important dimensions to political and legal history by recounting the establishment of the Vinerian Chair of English law at Oxford University and by documenting long-hidden activities, motives, and decisions in the stormy foundation of British India, beginning with Chambers's farsighted role in the century's most infamous criminal case, the prosecution of Maharajah Nuncomar in 1775. Sir Robert Chambers is the first analysis of Chambers's groundbreaking commingling of English law and Indian practice, as detailed in seventy-two volumes of his judicial notebooks recovered in Calcutta. As an Indian judge, Chambers founded the enduring hybrid heritage of Anglo-Indian law on which the modern constitution of the Republic of India still rests. This book also provides the first full account of Chambers's close friendship with Samuel Johnson and their collaboration on a survey of the British constitution, which profoundly influenced the later writings of both men. Curley reveals Johnson's literary and political interest in India, and his call for encyclopedic study of the East by the West, a call heeded by Chambers and Sir William Jones in founding the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Amassing the largest library of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Western World, Chambers contributed significantly to European awareness of the riches of ancient Indian literature. Lively and readable, this authoritative biography examines the relationships and activities of prominent men in eighteenth-century England, and it supplements Curley's two-volume edition of Chambers's and Johnson's A Course of Lectures on the English Law. It will interest readers curious about multiculturalism--two centuries before the term existed--as it developed under the British empire. All scholars of legal and literary history and of Asian and British studies, as well as lovers of biography, should relish this absorbing and well-researched history.
Download or read book The Vinerian Professor Gives this Public Notice that He Proposes to Begin His Complete Course of Private Lectures for the Year Ensuing on Wednesday the Tenth Day of October Next and to Finish the Same on Saturday the Twenty ninth Day of March Proceeding as Nearly as Possible According to the Following Scheme of the Course written by Sir William Blackstone and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on the Law of England written by Richard Wooddeson and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Systematical View of the Laws of England written by Richard Wooddeson and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professors of the Law written by David Lemmings and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to the culture of common law and English barristers in the long eighteenth century? In this wide-ranging sequel to Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680-1730, David Lemmings not only anatomizes the barristers and their world; he also explores the popular reputation and self-image of the law and lawyers in the context of declining popular participation in litigation, increased parliamentary legislation, and the growth of the imperial state. He shows how the bar survived and prospered in a century of low recruitment and declining work, but failed to fulfil the expectations of an age of Enlightenment and Reform. By contrast with the important role played by the common law, and lawyers, in seventeenth-century England and in colonial America, it appears that the culture and services of the barristers became marginalized as the courts concentrated on elite clients, and parliament became the primary point of contact between government and population. In his conclusion the author suggests that the failure of the bar and the judiciary to follow Blackstones mid-century recommendations for reforming legal culture and delivering the Englishmans birthrights significantly assisted the growth of parliamentary absolutism in government.
Download or read book A Short View of Legal Bibliography written by Richard Whalley Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plan for the classification and arrangement of a public or private library is founded upon the Systeme bibliographique of M. Guillaume François De Burl le jeune, Libraire de Paris. Cf. p. [383].
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Account to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Politics of Samuel Johnson written by Donald Greene and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1960, The Politics of Samuel Johnson remains one of the most significant studies of Johnson ever written. Contrary to virtually all preceding studies of Johnson's life, politics, and art, Donald Greene declared that the popular image of Johnson--one that even pervaded academic circles--was a caricature, an amalgam of misconceptions, inaccuracies, and sometimes deliberate untruths drawn from the works of his well-intentioned friend Boswell and his detractor Macaulay.In the Introduction to the second edition, Greene reasserts--in light of three decades of Johnsonian scholarship--his attack on the stereotyping of Johnson as a bigoted, party-line Tory and a crypto-Jacobite. Utilizing new material such as Thomas Curley's edition of the Chambers/Johnson Vinerian law lectures and the sale catalogue to Johnson's library to support his argument, Greene also warns that Johnson is still misquoted and misunderstood in situations from classroom lectures to discussions of Britain's role in the 1982 Falklands War.
Download or read book The great seal On military affairs Lawyers on horseback Houses and householders Loves of the lawyers Money Costume and toilet written by John Cordy Jeaffreson and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book about Lawyers written by John Cordy Jeaffreson and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commentaries on the Laws of England Copious MS notes by Francis Hargrave written by Sir William BLACKSTONE and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vinerian Professor Gives this Public Notice that He Proposes to Begin His Complete Course of Private Lectures for the Year Ensuing on Wednesday the Tenth Day of October Next and to Finish the Same on Saturday the Twenty ninth Day of March Proceedin written by and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author by W Tooke written by Charles Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Loves and Marriages of Some Eminent Persons written by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer and published by London : Ward and Downy. This book was released on 1890 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Friendships Across Ages written by Jeffrey O'Connell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendships Across Ages is about how two friendships, one and a half centuries apart, between aged men of great distinction, Samuel Johnson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and much younger, gifted, though flawed, men, James Boswell and Harold Laski respectively, resulted in writings of lasting importance.
Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Sense of History written by John A. Vance and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No area of Johnsonian studies has been less appreciated and more misunderstood than Johnson's response to history. Popular notions to the effect that he was insensitive to history have discouraged scholars and critics from discovering the role history played in his thinking. In this first book-length investigation of the subject, John A. Vance concludes that few misconceptions about Samuel Johnson have been so glaring as his supposed dislike of history. More specifically, in separate chapters Vance examines the development of Johnson's historical sense--from his readings, heritage, and travels to historical sites; Johnson's recall and use of historical figures and events, most notably the seventeenth-century attitude toward the most maligned member of the historical family, antiquarianism. The author also devotes two chapters to Johnson's historical writings--that is, those works in which he either incorporates history into his critical, biographical, and political discussions or those in which he clearly assumes the role of historian himself. Vance furthermore considers Johnson's views on historical facts, educative and moral history, the broadening scope of historical investigation, the nature of historical truth and skepticism, historical research, historical causation, and the historian's style.
