But he disliked commerce, and finally persuaded his father to allow him to study law for two years at the University of Naples, during which period the lively and attractive youth made brisk use of his leisure time in that gay and romantic city, where he made his way into the highest circles of society, and unconsciously gleaned the material for the rich harvest of song and story that came with his later years.

If you should study law, as you said you had thought of doing, that would change the course of your life.

The age of Universities, however, had now begun, and English scholars went abroad in numbers to study law at Bologna and the Italian universities, or to learn philosophy and the arts at Paris, or at some of the less costly schools in Gaul.

From Oxford he came to London to study law, but soon gave it up to write for the stage.

After his university course in Trinity College he came to London to study law, but soon gave up the idea to follow literature, which in turn led him to politics.

When he became of age, in 1832, he came into possession of a comfortable fortune, returned to England, and settled down in the Temple to study law.

He was born at Puy, in 1833, and on leaving the college of Nantes, came to study law in Paris, but politics occupied him chiefly, and he soon got himself shut up in Mazas as a political prisoner.

" "I should like to have you graduate well at college and then study law.

He had long wanted to study law in Boston, and here was his opportunity.

As the struggle between money and law on the one side and literature on the other still went on, he expressed his feelings on the subject to his friend Loring in the following stanza, which puts the whole argument into a nutshell: They tell me I must study law.

Caelius' father brought his son to Cicero, as soon as he had taken his toga virilis, to study law and oratory, and Cicero was evidently attracted by the bright and lively boy; he never deserted him, and the last letter of Caelius to his old preceptor was written only just before his own sad end.

" Frau Schumann wished Robert to study law, and sent him to the University at Leipzig for that purpose and later to Heidelberg.

Mr. Rice finally asked him how would he like to study law.

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About the same time, his beloved cousin, Joseph Whitall, was sent to Trenton to study law.

At the end of his college course, he came with his brother Henry to study law in Johnstown.

At the age of eighteen, however, he left his alma mater, and went to London to study law.

He should study law.

"but of all the young men who study law, about one half do it with no settled purpose of ever practising, and, of course, don't.

" The eldest son of this brother, Bushrod, was his favorite nephew, and Washington took much interest in his career, getting the lad admitted to study law with Judge James Wilson, in Philadelphia, and taking genuine pride in him when he became a lawyer and judge of repute.

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING, American historian, born at Salem, Massachusetts; son of a lawyer; graduated at Harvard in 1814, and applied himself to study law; by-and-by he travelled in Europe, married, and turned to literature as a profession; growing blind, the result of an accident at college, he fortunately inherited means, employed assistants, and with great courage in 1826 began to study Spanish history.

He went to school at Verona, where for his dullness he was nick-named the "mole," and afterwards he passed on to the University of Padua to study law, apparently to please his father, for in the charming autobiography prefixed to his collected poems he quotes his father as saying:"My son, be not enamored of this coquette, Poesy; for with all her airs of a great lady, she will play thee some trick of a faithless grisette.

His uncle next sent him to Leipzig to study law, but he managed to continue his astronomical researches.