188 IIEXRY KIRKE WHITE S REMAINS. 



knowledge in all parts of the law as to enable me, with 

 a little study at the inns of court, to hold an argument, 

 on the nice points in the law, with the bast attorney in 

 the kingdom. A man that understands the law is sure 

 to have business ; and in case I have no thoughts, in case, 

 that is, that I do not aspire to hold the honourable place 

 of a barrister, I shall feel sure of gaining a genteel live- 

 lihood at the business to which I am articled. 



I attend at the office at eight in the morning, and leave 

 at eight in the evening ; then attend my Latin until 

 nine, which, you may be sure, is pretty close confinement. 



Mr Coldham is clerk to the commercial commissioners, 

 which has occasioned us a deal of extraordinary work. I 

 worked all Sunday, and until twelve o'clock on Saturday 

 night, when they w^ere hurried to give in the certificates 'i 

 to the bank. We had also a very troublesome cause 

 last assizes, The Corporation versus Gee. which we (the 

 attorneys for the corporation) lost. It was really a very 

 fatiguing day (I mean the day on which it was tried). I 

 never got anything to eat, from five in the afternoon the 

 preceding day, until twelve the next night, when the 

 trial ended. 



TO HIS BROTHER NEVILLE. 



Nottingham, 2Gth June 1800. 

 Dear Brother, 



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j\Iy mother has allowed me a good deal lately for 

 books, and I have a large assortment (a retailer's phrase). 

 But I hope you do not suppose they consist of novels ; — 

 no — I have made a firm resolution never to spend above 

 one hour at this amusement. Though I have been 

 obliged to enter into this resolution in consequence of a 

 vitiated taste acquired by reading romances, I do not 

 intend to banish them entirely from my desk. After 

 long and fatiguing researches in Blackstone or Coke, 



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