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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G. Edward White

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 16, 1876, Harvard University Archives. The letter is quoted in White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 112. 10. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., diary entry, June 17, 1872, Holmes papers. 11.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court ...

Susan-Mary Grant

®Autobiographical. Sketch, ̄ 1861 (Harvard Class Album) 2x Oliver Wendell Holmes« Civil War Diary (Ball«s Bluff) 3x Oliver Wendell Holmes to Father: December 10, 1862 4x Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence ...

Allen Mendenhall

Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Baroness Marie Moncheur, July 16, 1910. Harvard University Holmes Digital Suite. Mark DeWolfe Howe's research materials on Holmes, 1858-1968: Finding Aid, October 1909- 1910.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Frederic R. Kellogg

The journal of his reading, which he kept from 1865. 1 Howe, Justice Oliver WendellHolmes: TheProvingYears, 11–25, 96; White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 130. 2 Little, “The Early Reading of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,” 80 6 ...
The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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ROBERT W. GORDON Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was born in 1841 into the center of Boston legal and literary cultures. 1 His maternal grandfather, Charles Jackson, had been a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. His father ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American ...

Sophie W. Littlefield

Though some of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s friends put forward his name, there were other, more likely candidates. McKinley had just begun to consider candidates for the nomination when he was assassinated on September 6, 1901, by a ...
The Annotated Common Law: With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory ...

The Annotated Common Law: With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You showed up a little late to the first presentation in the Lowell Institute series of lectures over the late fall, this installment given by esteemed local lawyer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There's still the restless sound of people easing into their ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Emerson published his first essay, Nature in 1836. After writing this essay Emerson gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence.
Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence: Letters of Justice Oliver ...

Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence: Letters of Justice Oliver ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The importance of this edition of the Holmes-Sheehan letters rests in the first instance on this discovery.
The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of Torts in History

The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of Torts in History

David Rosenberg

This bold book challenges a contemporary consensus on the titanic figure of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Collected Legal Papers

Collected Legal Papers

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A valuable compilation, this volume contains Holmes' most famous speeches and papers from 1885 to 1918.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.--soldier, Scholar, Judge

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.--soldier, Scholar, Judge

Gary Jan Aichele

Traces Holmes' life, discusses his theory of legal realism and ethical relativism, and assesses his influence on American law
Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice ...

Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

This fine collection is accompanied by an essay by Sir John Pollock that skillfully places the writers' ideas in the perspective of recent experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G. Edward White

The book first sketches Holmes's early years--his childhood in Boston, his undergraduate years at Harvard (which his father and both grandfathers also attended), and his valiant service in the Civil War, during which he was severely wounded ...
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph ...
The Cloak of Hippocrates

The Cloak of Hippocrates

Joel Berman

Written in the style of Jean-Christophe and David Copperfield, this is a story rich with surprising twists and turns, including encounters wtih actual figures of that era, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.; Emily Dickinson; Dr. William ...
The Common Law

The Common Law

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Only paperback edition of a great legal classic. Lucid, accessible coverage of liability, criminal law, torts, contracts, and more, from historical perspective. New introduction by Sheldon M. Novick. Table of Cases.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sage of the Supreme Court

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sage of the Supreme Court

G. Edward White

A biography of the well-known philosopher and judge, with emphasis on his influential thirty-year tenure as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Francis Butler Simkins: A Life

Francis Butler Simkins: A Life

James Scott Humphreys

Simkins to Wendell Holmes Stephenson, May 2, 1936, Box 70, in Stephenson Papers, Durham, N.C. 39. Simkins to Wendell Holmes Stephenson, February 17, 1937, Box 70, in Stephenson Papers, Durham, N.C.; Simkins, "Ben Tillman's View ...
Sibylline Oracles of Christ

Sibylline Oracles of Christ

Daniel F. Owsley

... Barret Browning, Jean-Pierre de Gussde, Michael Jackson, A.E. Housman, St. Athanaius of Alexandria, Rev. Stan Lequire, Daniel of Amherst, Stephen Hawking , Pablo Picasso, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Shirley Charlotte Bronte, Henry David ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G. Edward White

G. Edward White. O L I V E R W E N D E L L H O L M E S , J R . G. EdwardWhite 2006 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University's.
Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order

Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order

Edward Alsworth Ross

Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine with a new introduction by Dante J. Scala An Introduction to the Sociology of Law Nicholas S. Timascheff with a new introduction by A. Javier Treviño The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes with a new ...
The Lost Gospel of Simon Peter

The Lost Gospel of Simon Peter

Daniel F. Owsley

Stan Lequire, Daniel of Amherst, Stephen Hawking, Pablo Picasso, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Shirley Charlotte Bronte, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, David Ingram, Kaist Scientific Journal, Alexander Pope, Einstein, Erik Stokstad, ...

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