Was it for this, that students at the bar,
acute, inquisitive, (here only wild enthusiasts) neglected for
a while the paths of preferment and the law as too narrow, tortuous, and
unseemly to bear the pure and broad light of reason?
acute, inquisitive, (here only wild enthusiasts) neglected for
a while the paths of preferment and the law as too narrow, tortuous, and
unseemly to bear the pure and broad light of reason?
Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits
