"Topically" Quotes from Famous Books
... four Territories, both in the revisions and in the annual laws. The revisions, however, are more apt to have a topical arrangement, and to be divided into chapters, with titles, each containing a special subject and arranged, either topically, or, in some States, even so intelligent otherwise as are Pennsylvania and New Jersey, arranged with the elementary stupidity of the alphabetical system. I say, stupid; when, for instance, you have a chapter ... — Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson |