James Kent's Timeline: Life, Photos, and Key Events

"If he to whom is entrusted in this seat of learning the cultivation of our Laws, can have any effect in elevating the attention of some of our youth from the narrow and selfish objects of the Profession, to the nobler study of the General Principles of our Governments, and the Policy of our Laws: -- If he can in any degree illustrate their Reason, their Wisdom, and their propitious Influence on the freedom, order, and happiness of Society, and thereby produce a more general Interest in their sup"