Richard Grant White

It has the appearance of technical skill.

Another lawyer and well-known Shakespearean, Richard Grant White, says, No dramatist of the time, not even Beaumont, who was the younger son of a judge of the common pleas, and who after studying at the Inns of Court abandoned law for the drama, used legal phrases with Shakespeare's readiness and exactness.

And the significance of this fact is heightened by another, that it is only to the language of the law that he exhibits this inclination.

The phrases peculiar to other occupations serve him on rare occasions by way of description, comparison, or illustration, generally when something in the scene suggests them.

One could travel more cheaply on the finest railway on the continent.

What Richard Grant White thought it worthwhile to record as a rare and interesting sight, a man on an English highway breaking stones, is no uncommon sight here.

All limestone for these hundreds of miles of road, having been quarried here, there, anywhere, and carted and strewn along the roadside, is broken by a hammer in the hand.

By the highway the workman sits, usually an Irishman, pecking away at a long, rugged pile as though he were good to live for a thousand years.

This clause assumes that the right of citizens as such to vote is an existing right.

Mr. Richard Grant White, in his late work on Words and Their Uses, says of the word citizen, A citizen is a person who has certain political rights, and the word is properly used only to imply or suggest the possession of these rights.

Mr.

Justice Washington, in the case of Corfield v. Corriel, Volume 4, Washington Circuit Court Reporter, page 380, speaking of the privileges and immunities of the citizen as mentioned in Section 2, Article 4 of the Constitution, after enumerating the personal rights mentioned above and some others as embraced by those terms, says, to which may be added the elective franchise as regulated and established by the laws or constitution of the State in which it is to be exercised.