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relation of facts, and opinions of great men presiding in courts of justice." The accuracy on which the reporter prides himself, has not been granted to him by the profession, which affords but another example of the inability of authors always to judge of their own productions. "His
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of the judges, in some, even the points themselves have been erroneously reported. The only notice which some of the most important cases in the book have received, is a short memorandum of the point determined. The notes taken in the earlier part of his life, evidently bear few marks of subsequent
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revision; and the frequent discovery of errors has given a reputation for inaccuracy to the publication." Mr. Blunt has corrected the errors of Ambler, by means of the
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