The History of Lawyers Ancient and Modern
Forsyth, William![The History of Lawyers Ancient and Modern](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/856/8567193/CHSBZCOP038567193.jpg)
A Detailed History of Lawyers in Ancient Greece, Rome, England and France
First published in 1849 in London under the title Hortensius: or, The Advocate, Forsyth's History of Lawyers is a spirited account of advocacy in ancient Greece, Rome, and England and of the bar in France. Acknowledging that "[w]e are too apt to cloth the ancients in buckram, and view them, as it were, through a magnifying glass, so that they loom before us in the dim...