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Buffalo, N. Y.
April 1962

DENNIS & CO., INC.

January, 1898.

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THE

BAR.

"Lord Coke said, substantially, that, if one would look at

the sages of the law, he would find that they were men who had
not only acquired a superior knowledge of the law, but had also
'sucked from the breasts of that divine knowledge, honesty,
gravity and integrity;' and he added: 'For hitherto I never saw
any man of a loose and unlawful life attain to any sound and
perfect knowledge of the said laws; and, on the other side, I
never saw any man of excellent judgment in those laws, but was
withal honest, faithful and virtuous.""

PUBLISHED BY THE WEST VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION Printed at Morgantown, West Virginia.