Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Tennessee (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Tennessee This book is intended to be contribution to the history of Tennessee. It is also, in some measure, the outcome of professional pride. Its literary quality is not high. Many of the articles are of the kind to be found in encyclopedias - bare recitals of dates and facts. The labor devoted to the collection of material has been much greater than the Sketches indicate. It required six months to find when and where one of our greatest orators was born. Repetition of facts and monotony of phrase could not be avoided. Above everything, accuracy has been sought, but after all, it is in respect of dates that the book is likely to prove most defective. The serious trouble encountered on this point will be shown by the statement that three different documents relating to one judge give each a different date for his death, and it is impossible to find which is right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.