E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Stephen Blundell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Making of America Books Collection of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service (http://www.umdl.umich.edu/) Note: Images of the original pages are available through the Making of America Books Collection of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service. See http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJF2351.0001.001 Transcriber's note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. The oe ligature has been transcribed as [oe]. A table of contents, though not present in the original, has been provided below: PREFACE. INTRODUCTION. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS. APPENDIX. No. I. No. II. No. III. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS. AN ESSAY ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS. by GEORGE SHARSWOOD. Id non eo tantum, quod si vis illa dicendi malitiam instruxerit, nihil sit publicis privatisque rebus perniciosius eloquentia: sed nos quoque ipsi, qui pro virile parte conferre aliquid ad facultatem dicendi conati sumus, pessime mereamur de rebus humanis, SI LATRONI COMPAREMUS HAEC ARMA, NON MILITI. QUINCT. DE INST. OR. Second Edition. Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., Law Booksellers and Publishers, No. 535 Chestnut Street. 1860. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Penn'a. C. Sherman & Son, Printers, S. W. Cor. Seventh and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia. TO MY HONORED MASTER, JOSEPH R. INGERSOLL, LL.D., INSCRIBED AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT AND GRATITUDE. PREFACE.