...peaceable and healthy; long may it continue so, and never have occasion for the tongue of the one or the pen of the other, both equally destructive to men's estates and lives; besides, forsooth, they, hangman like, have a license to murder and make mischief." His idealization of the advantages is shown...

...Regarding two of the learned professions he writes: "Of lawyers and physicians I shall say nothing, because the country is very peaceable and healthy;...homes were not such as to inspire pleasant sentiments towards the courts or their officers. Few were drawn from that class of society which, through birth...

...very peaceable and healthy ; long may it continue ; and never have occasion for the tongue of one nor the pen of the other, both equally destructive to men's estates and lives." While this may have been true of the Western Province, it was not applicable to East New Jersey, which...

...peaceable and healthy ; long may it so continue, and never have occasion for the tongue of the one nor the pen of the other, both equally destructive to men's estates and lives." This at least gives us an idea of the opinion of the time in respect to these two professions. It is...

...Peaceable and Healty; long may it so continue and never have occasion for the Tongue of the one, or the Pen of the other, both equally destructive to men's Estates and Lives."4 A little later on, in 1700, Penn, in his answer to the charges of Colonel Quarry, defends...

...Peaceable and Healthy; long may it so continue and never have occasion for the Tongue of the one, or the Pen of the other, both equally destructive to men's Estates and Lives."7 During the eighteenth century part of the hostility toward the lawyer was because they were...