The
learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other
learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; neither was Mr.
Whatever station in society I may attain, through the medium of the
learned profession of which I am about to become an unworthy member, I shall endeavour not to disgrace, and Mrs.
"But that's not work, like the work of a peasant or a
learned profession."
I have been credibly informed, and am inclined to believe, that the various boards of directors of railway companies, those gigantic jobbers and bribers, while quarrelling about everything else, agreed together some ten years back to buy up the
learned profession of medicine, body and soul.
The room was one of a very homely description, and was apparently under the especial patronage of stage-coachmen; for several gentleman, who had all the appearance of belonging to that
learned profession, were drinking and smoking in the different boxes.
With regard to the
learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society, and according to their situation and talents, will be indiscriminately the objects of the confidence and choice of each other, and of other parts of the community.
These lads are to be sent to Cambridge and educated for the
learned professions. Old Master Cheever had lived so long, and seen so many generations of school-boys grow up to be men, that now he can almost prophesy what sort of a man each boy will be.
Among the gentry of America; among the well-informed and moderate: in the
learned professions; at the bar and on the bench: there is, as there can be, but one opinion, in reference to the vicious character of these infamous journals.
Here are members of the
learned professions, whom Providence endowed with special gifts for the plough, the forge, and the wheelbarrow, or for the routine of unintellectual business.
Why should an auctioneer and appraiser thirty years ago, who had as good as forgotten his free-school Latin, be expected to manifest a delicate scrupulosity which is not always exhibited by gentlemen of the
learned professions, even in our present advanced stage of morality?
George's education was confided to a neighbouring scholar and private pedagogue who "prepared young noblemen and gentlemen for the Universities, the senate, and the
learned professions: whose system did not embrace the degrading corporal severities still practised at the ancient places of education, and in whose family the pupils would find the elegances of refined society and the confidence and affection of a home." It was in this way that the Reverend Lawrence Veal of Hart Street, Bloomsbury, and domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Bareacres, strove with Mrs.
Look at the successful men in any of the
learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!