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To: parsifal
On October 25, 1758 as William Blackstone approached the podium in the Oxford lecture hall he knew he was a failure. The thirty year old lawyer, nearsighted, already portly, chronically ill, now ready to read his notes in his grating voice, had spent the last seven years before the Bar in London with, a sympathetic biographer wrote, “little notice or practice.”

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No wonder his works are all over the place & the founders rejected him. He wasn't even respected during our founding by the London Bar.

Bwaahahahaha

1,889 posted on 02/27/2010 7:17:35 PM PST by patlin (1st SCOTUS of USA: "Human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law.")
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You and bp2 both have a “Blackstone” problem. Do you want to figure it out, or do you want me to set you straight. If I set you straight, I expect a “Thank you, parsy, for clearing that up!”

parsy, the brave and fearless Drone, going where no other Drone has gone before.....bzzz.....bzzz....


1,894 posted on 02/27/2010 7:28:26 PM PST by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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