...for a lawyer. I answer, that while there is a vast field of law which I would not advise the merchant to meddle with, I would have him study the general...knowledge to every merchant, that, were I educating my son fot that profession, I would set apart pt least two years of his noviciate? expressly for this study-...

...unskilled in the management of accounts, acting as " Master in Chancery," or a merchant, unfamiltarized with the laws of trade, embarking In various complicated...profession, I would set apart at least two years of his noviciate expressly for this study ; nay more — so much do the two professions run into each other,...