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remembrance of it lincrers around the court room until 

 this day. It is in print, and it has ever been the won- 

 der and the admiration of the legal profession in this 

 country, and almost equally of the profession in Great 

 Britain. It lifted the law of charities out of the depths 

 of obscurity and confusion that covered it before, and 

 while the fullness of its research and the strength of its 

 reasoning- were masterly, it was clothed with a pre- 

 cision and beauty of language never surpassed. No 

 wonder it was successful. It was a fittine close to a 

 long and pre-eminent professional life. Mr. Binney 

 never afterwards appeared in court, though he con- 

 tinued for some years to examine legal questions sub- 

 mitted to him, and to give written opinions. At length 

 the calls upon his attention became so numerous as to 

 be oppressive. The examinations they required were 

 trying to his eyes, which after 1832, frequently suffered 

 from inflammation. For these reasons, in 1850, he with- 

 drew entirely from all professional labor. Thus re- 

 lieved, his eyes recovered their strength, in good meas- 

 ure, and they continued to be of service to him ever 

 after. ^ 



But, with leaving the profession, he did not abandon 

 his habits of study. Released from the demands of a 

 jealous and laborious pursuit, he turned with new zest 

 to what had ever been to him a delight. He always 

 had a vigorous appetite for the best literature, espe- 

 cially for that which was moral and religious, and this 

 appetite increased as he grew older. He was a good 



