Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur temporis: quantum alii tempestivis conviviis, quantum aleæ, quantum pilæ, tantum mihi egomet, ad hæc studia recolenda, sumpsero. CIC. PRO ARCHIA. Le changement d'étude est toujours un délassement pour moi. D'AGUESSEAU. ΤΟ SIR GEORGE THOMAS STAUNTON, BART. LL.D. AND F.R.S. SIR, ONE of the earliest and most pleasing Reminiscences in my literary life, is my acquaintance with your father. When we were both young, his various learning and elegant accomplishments attracted my attention and reverence; his long political career, ever marked by honour, integrity, talent, and beneficence, was beheld by his numerous friends with delight and respect; in these feelings, and the joy of seeing all his great and good qualities revived in his Son, no one participated more than myself. It is pleasing to me to have this opportunity of recording the friendship with which he and yourself have so long honoured me. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS. 9 26 ib. 32 35 37 3.-On the Limits of the Right of Courts of Judicature to 4.-On the Separation of Courts of Law and Equity, pe- culiar to English Jurisprudence, 5.-On the Redactions and Reforms of the French Cus- tomary and Satute Law-and on the Code Napoléon, 41 6. On the Order of Avocâts in France, and its extinc- tion at the French Revolution, 7.-On the English Law of Property, His Lordship's Speech, in Defence of his Administration of 61 Part I. Containing an historical and literary account of the original text, early versions, and printed editions of the Old and New Testament; or the sacred books of the Jews Part II. Containing an historical and literary account of the Koran, Zend-Avesta, Kings, and Edda; or the books |