"Doctor of laws" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in all 19 Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Laws conferred on the 9th of June, including men of such eminence as ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy
... reckoned, &c."—Priestley's Gram., p. 69. Now, to say nothing of errors in punctuation, capitals, &c., there is scarcely any thing in all this passage, that is either conceived or worded properly. Yet, coining from a Doctor of Laws, and Fellow of the Royal Society, it is readily adopted by Murray, and for his sake by others; and so, with all its blunders, the vain gloss passes uncensured into the schools, as a rule and model for elegant composition. ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... is yellow." The secret of the Conjunction on which so many fine heads had split, on which so many learned definitions were thrown away, as if it was its peculiar province and inborn virtue to announce oracles and formal propositions, and nothing else, like a Doctor of Laws, is here at once accounted for, inasmuch as it is clearly nothing but another part of speech, the pronoun, that, with a third part of speech, the noun, thing, understood. This is getting at a solution of words into their component parts, not glossing over one difficulty ...
— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt
... means!" and the Doctor gave a little bow and deprecating smile. "I am not in any way connected with the Church. I am a doctor of laws and literature,—a humble student of philosophy ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
... 1644, the University conferred upon Mr. Fanshawe the degree of Doctor of Laws. In the beginning of March 1645 he attended the Prince to Bristol, but in consequence of his wife's confinement, she did not accompany him; and the circumstances of their separation are affecting. She joined him in that city in May, at which time he was ...
— Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe • Lady Fanshawe
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