In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Bio: Alexander Bicknell, author, was an industrious littérateur of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, whose writings received received ridicule or faint praise in the Monthly Review. He died 22 August 1796 in St. Thomas's Hospital, London.