books by Oliver Wendell Holmes     books:     Oliver Wendell Holmes      The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver ... Oliver Wendell Holmes University Of Chicago Press, 1997 Genius! Posner, who is arguably today's most influential legal thinker, has put together an invaluable collection of Justice Holmes' most memorable writings. The combo of Posner selecting Holmes is powerful: the selections invariably present the brilliant Holmes on timeless ...             The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes Akadine Press, 2002 Delightful Two oral practices flourished in antebellum America: the lecture (or sermon) and the conversation. Lectures, such as Emerson's "The American Scholar" and sermons, such as the abolitionist sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, are well-known examples of this era. But it was ...             Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes BiblioBazaar, 2007 A realistic biography Oliver Wendell Holmes describes Emerson as an intellectual mystic, as opposed to an emotional one. This probably places Emerson very much in line with Holmes' own temperament -- this Holmes is the father of the famous and intellectually accomplished Supreme Court ...             The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell Oliver Wendell. Holmes J.H. Sears and Co., 1889             Medical Essays (Volume 9) - Leather Bound (The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes) Oliver Wendell Holmes Reprint Services Corp, 2007 This paper was written in a great heat and with passionate indignation. If I touched it at all I might trim its rhetorical exuberance, but I prefer to leave it all its original strength of expression. I could not, if I had tried, have disguised the feelings with which I regarded the attempt to put out of sight the frightful facts which I brought ...             The Path of the Law Jr., Oliver, Wendell Holmes NuVision Publications, 2007 When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise people in such a way as to keep them out of court. The reason why it is a profession, why people will pay lawyers to argue for them or to advise them, is that in societies like ours the ...             The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes Dover Publications, 1991 Not an "elaborate joke" This comment doesn't attempt to assess Holmes' classic work. I write, however, to note that the other gentleman's comment about this work being possibly an "elaborate joke" is ludicrious and disprovable. In a letter reproduced in The Essential Holmes, edited by Richard ...             The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table Oliver, Wendell Holmes Cosimo Classics, 2005 You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, and will be contented with nothing else. -from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table A superb example of a literary form that has long since fallen into disuse, this seriocomic one-sided conversation with the dictatorial ...             The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes Digireads.com, 2005 "The Common Law" is a classic work from the great Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In The Common Law, Holmes examines many aspects of the common law giving great attention to the historical perspective and precedence and its influence on modern common law. In this work you will lengthy discussions on several areas of law including: ...             Path of the Law (Little Books of Wisdom) Oliver Wendell Holmes Applewood Books, 1996 Great, short book I believe this book is transcribed from a speech given by Holmes to a group of lawyers, judges, scholars at HLS. It is Holmes' prediciton for the future of the law and it is extremely prescient. For anyone interested in the law it is a must read, and at about 34 ...             The Path of the Law Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Book Jungle, 2007 Oliver Wendell Holmes served on the U S Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. He is considered to be one of the most influential judges ever to serve on the court. His wit and concise writing style make his opinions some of the best-written documents to come out of the Supreme Court. Holmes considered law to be the barometer of our moral life. ...             The Collected Legal Papers Oliver Wendell Holmes Dover Publications, 2007 A Supreme Court justice for four decades, Holmes is renowned for his learning, judgment, and eloquence, as reflected in this compilation of 26 of his papers and addresses.             The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2008          products you might be interested in search for books breakfast, breakfast-table, collected, complete, essential, selections      toavi.com    web we recommend Delightful randomly chosen VHS: She (1965)