 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...for reasons 1 suppose somewhat similar to, if not the same with, those I hare now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes, a book so rugged in its style that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean liibour, and not less arduous and difficult than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
 | Law - 1825 - 946 pages
...reasons I suppose •somewhat similar to, if not the same with, those I have now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes, a book so rugged in its style that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labour, and not less arduous and difficult than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
 | Biography - 1825 - 320 pages
...similar to, if not the same with, those I have now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes, & trook so rugged in its style that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labour, and not less arduous and difficult than it would be •to give the smoothness of a rabbit's... | |
 | John Crisp (of Furnival's Inn.) - 1832 - 242 pages
...reasons, I suppose, somewhat similar to, if not the same with, those I have now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes; a book so rugged in its style, that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labour, and not less arduous and difficult than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 pages
...reasons, I suppose, somewhat similar to, if not the same, with those I have now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes; a book so rugged in its style, that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labour, and not less arduous and difficult than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 388 pages
...reasons, I suppose, somewhat similar to, if not the same, with those I have now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes; a book so rugged in its style, that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labour, and not less arduous and difficult than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 510 pages
...Nose, in one of his admirable letters, very playfully proposes the publication of a poetical versionof the law reports, which he advocates as possessing...style, that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labour, and not less arduous and difficult than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...for reasons I suppose somewhat similar to, if not the same with those I have now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes; a book so rugged in its style, that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labour, and not less arduous and difficult, than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...for reasons I suppose somewhat similar to, if not the same with those I have now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes; a book so rugged in its style, that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labour, and not less arduous and difficult, than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1851 - 790 pages
...if not the same, with those I have now suggested. He began with Coke's Institutes; a book so nigged in its style, that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean labor, and not less arduous and ditticult than it would be to give the smoothness of a rabbit's fur... | |
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the law reports, which he advocates as possessing sundry great advantages over the dullness of legal prose. He further informs us, that a friend actually made the attempt with Coke's Institutes, a book so rugged in its style, that an attempt to polish... 
