ABSTRACT
After leaving this scene of insolence and meanness, Le Noir took his route towards the Temple, to inquire for a young barrister, of the name of Simkins, to whom he had letters of recommendation. He soon / found his chambers, which were neatly and elegantly furnished. Mr. Simkins was a young man of genteel address, and by no means destitute of information; but being of too volatile a disposition to pursue the dry course of reading, necessary for the attainment of deep legal knowledge, he was resolved to acquire legal reputation at least, at a cheaper rate; and instead of poring over musty volumes to find what the laws of his country were, he resolved, by a lighter kind of reading, to discover, what they ought to be. – Jacob’s Law Dictionary, and Blackstone’s Commentaries, 122 composed his whole library of English jurisprudence, but his shelves were sufficiently crowded / with the political works of the philosophical legislators of France, and their learned English commentators.
