 And what a profession it is ! No doubt everything is interesting when it is understood and seen in its connection with the rest of things. Every calling is great when greatly pursued. But what other gives such scope to realize the spontaneous energy of...  The Journal of Jurisprudence - Page 3831885Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1891 - 72 pages
...professions this has the highest standards. And what a profession it is ! No doubt everything is interesting when it is understood and seen in its connection with...what other does one plunge so deep in the stream of life, — so share its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs, both as witness and actor?... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1896 - 88 pages
...professions this has the highest standards. And what a profession it is ! No doubt everything is interesting when it is understood and seen in its connection with...what other does one plunge so deep in the stream of life, — so share its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs, both as witness and actor... | |
 | John Armstrong Chaloner - Insanity (Law) - 1906 - 510 pages
...The law is made by the Bar, even more than by the Bench. * * * And what a profession it is ! * * * Every calling is great when greatly pursued. But what...what other does one plunge so deep in the stream of life, — so share its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs, both as witness and actor... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 732 pages
...Bar Association in 1885 Judge Holmes proclaimed his high ideal of the law and of the work of lawyers. "Every calling is great when greatly pursued. But...what other does one plunge so deep in the stream of life — so share its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs both as witness and actor? "But... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - Bar associations - 1921 - 272 pages
...good and right. Says Justice Holmes : "And what a profession it is! No doubt everything is interesting when it is understood and seen in its connection with...what other does one plunge so deep in the stream of life — so share its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs, both as witness and actor?"... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - History - 1950 - 504 pages
...and later the great judicial opinions. "Every calling is great when greatly pursued," he admitted, "but what other gives such scope to realize the spontaneous...soul ? In what other does one plunge so deep in the streams of life, so share its passions, its battles, its despairs, its triumphs?" When he spoke of... | |
 | Albert William Levi - Ethics - 1995 - 188 pages
...Law" delivered to the Suffolk Bar Association dinner on 5 February 1885. "Every calling," he said, "is great when greatly pursued. But what other gives...what other does one plunge so deep in the stream of life — so share its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs, both as witness and actor?"... | |
 | Albert W. Alschuler - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 348 pages
...Holmes indicated o * r that the legal profession was distinctive: "And what a profession it is! ... [W]hat other gives such scope to realize the spontaneous...what other does one plunge so deep in the stream of life — to share its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs- - both as witness and actor."... | |
 | David L. Faigman - History - 2004 - 440 pages
...subject that ignited his passion and tested his intellect. "What a profession the law is!" he exclaimed. "What other gives such scope to realize the spontaneous...what other does one plunge so deep in the stream of life — so share its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs?"13 After law school, Holmes... | |
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