BY DAVID HOFFMAN,

PROFESSOR OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND,

Method is the light and life of study: without it the simplest subject is dark,

and with it the most abstruse is often easy, and even pleasing.

“Si quid novisti rectius istis,
“Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.”.....HON.

BALTIMORE:

PUBLISHED BY COALE AND MAXWELL.

POMEROY AND TOY, PRINTERS.

1817.