Mansfield was a booksellers' man; Thurlow ridiculed the pretensions of the Trade.

At Lady Colvill's, to whom I am proud to introduce any stranger of eminence, that he may see what dignity and grace is to be found in Scotland, an officer observed, that he had heard Lord Mansfield was not a great English lawyer.

Could this have been a lure to tempt me to knock again at the Spiritual door of which Dr. Mansfield is the porter?

Mansfield is a very substantial and venerable town, bearing a name which one distinguished man has rendered illustrious by wearing it through a brilliant life.

Very slowly was the public brought to acknowledge that Mansfield was a great jurist, and that Burke was a great master of political science.