...one, and prevent, punish, or redress the other; which employes in its theory the noblest faculties of the soul, and exerts in its practice the cardinal virtues of the heart." It has a literature which contains the results of the labors and genius of the historian, the traveler,...

...responsibilities than these are not, and truly the law "employs, in its theory, the noblest faculties of the soul, and exerts, in its practice, the cardinal virtues of the heart." History is not devoid of noble instances of such faithfulness to duty. A father, in a moment of passion,...

...that truth stood Blackstone when he said, that " the law employs in its theory the noblest faculties of the soul ; and exerts in its practice the cardinal virtues of the heart." In its theory the law is the earthly representative of God's justice ; and in the study of perfect...

...beautifully said by Blackstone : "Law is a science which employs in its theory the noblest faculties of the soul, and exerts in its practice the cardinal virtues of the heart." No wonder, then, that up to the Twelfth Century, the only lawyers in England were clergymen! It was...