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AMERICAN

LAW MAGAZINE.

VOL. III.

APRIL AND JULY.

1844.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. & J. W. JOHNSON, LAW BOOKSELLERS.

1 8 1970

Reprinted in U.S.A.

by

Fred B. Rothman & Co.

South Hackensack, N. J.

AMERICAN

LAW MAGAZINE.

NO. 5.

APRIL, 1844.

ART. I.-BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF EDWARD LIV.

INGSTON.

[The following Sketch was read before the American Philosophical Society, by Henry D. Gilpin Esq., late Attorney-general of the United States, and is here republished with his permission.]

I PROCEED in accordance with the custom of our Institution, to offer a notice, for preservation among its records, of one who while living was among the most distinguished of its members of one who earned that distinction, not less by a long life of benevolence and virtue, than by the active exercise, through the various scenes of an eminent political and professional career, of a practical philosophy which found in them all constant opportunities to promote the happiness and the prosperity of society. Without disparaging the quiet labours of the student, who, in the tranquillity of his closet and under none but self-imposed restraints, elicits by patient reflection and sagacious reasoning, truths of enduring value; without depreciating that industry which in at least comparative seclusion from the more active and exciting duties of

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