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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 4 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 2 0 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 4: (search)
anecdote concerning Thomas Aquinas. Acquaintances made in Germany. letter from William Prescott. Mr. Sumner's regard for Boston. his home on his return from Europe. Lyceum lectures. course of lectures to the Cambridge Law School. he Edits Vesey's Reports. remarks from the Law Reporter. He (Charles Sumner) presents in his own person a decisive proof that an American gentleman, without official rank or wide-spread reputation, by mere dint of courtesy, candor, an entire absence of pthe lyceum, where he soon obtained remarkable success. During the winter of 1843 he again delivered a course of lectures to the students of the Cambridge Law School, and subsequently engaged in the laborious work of editing the twenty volumes of Vesey's Reports, to which he added sketches of distinguished counsellors mentioned in the text, and also valuable notes. In speaking of the execution of this task, The Law Reporter. makes the following discriminating remarks:-- Wherever occasion o
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section third: professional life. (search)
l Edits Vesey's Reports continues legal studies and practice until 1846 In 1840 Mr. Sumner returned from what would have been to most men only a long holiday of pleasure, but which to him had been a University life and a holiday, all blended in one; and, after a few hearty hand-shakings, he dashed again with all his fervor into the study of the science of law, and its engrossing practice. Again he became Lecturer at the Law School, and before 1846 he had edited, with matchless ability, Vesey's Reports, in twenty volumes. The learning he displayed in this labor was immense; for it was by no means confined to verbal, or even judicial criticism. The volumes were enlivened by vivid and captivating biographical sketches of great lawyers and jurists, besides apt, fresh, and learned annotations. It would be difficult to find another instance, in any country, of so mature and splendid a reputation won at so early an age, for he had not reached his thirty-fifth year. But Charles S