THE LIFE

OF

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD

BY

HENRY M. FIELD

It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it
of marble. But how much nobler shall be the sovereign's boast, when he
shall have it to say, that he found law dear and left it cheap; found it a
sealed book, left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich,
left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft
and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
-LORD BROUGHAM.

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS