Quotes from William Blackstone's books, and about them
Alexander Hamilton on Commentaries on the Laws of England: “Particularly influential were Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries, first published in America ten years earlier, which endowed British law with a more systematic coherence.”
Team of Rivals on Commentaries on the Laws of England: “He buried himself in the dog-eared pages of Blackstone’s Commentaries; he unearthed the thoughts in Chitty’s Pleadings; he analyzed precepts in Greenleaf’s Evidence and Story’s Equity Jurisprudence.”