The age of Elizabeth and James was a better and brighter era in the history of the English law, and it received uncommon splendour from the philosophy of Bacon, and the erudition of Coke. Lord Bacon's Equity Ordinances, his Maxims and Law Tracts, are fitted to employ and exercise the deepest meditation, and, together with the Commentaries of lord Coke, ought to be studied and mastered by every lawyer who means to be well acquainted with the reasons and grounds of the law, and to adorn the noble science he professes.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The age of Elizabeth and James was a better and brighter era in the history of the English law, and it received uncommon splendour from the philosophy of Bacon, and the erudition of Coke. Lord Bacon's Equity Ordinances, his Maxims and Law Tracts, are fitted to employ and exercise the deepest meditation, and, together with the Commentaries of lord Coke, ought to be studied and mastered by every lawyer who means to be well acquainted with the reasons and grounds of the law, and to adorn the noble science he professes." in the context of "James Kent, An Address Delivered Before the Law Association of the City of New-York, October 21st, 1836 (1836), p. 13" to mean that wisdom is timeless.