The author of the maxim was a man famous throughout the civilized world,--a man of transcendent talents, who fixed, more, perhaps, than any other man of the same century, his impress on the age in which he lived, and upon the laws of England,--I mean Lord Mansfield.
Quincy acknowledges Lord Mansfield as a significant figure in shaping British law and its impact on the world.
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