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Neither saint stranger nor sain nor
dead man can produce greater titles to respect
and affection than a Juryman the abstract
being we have in view in speaking of a Juryman.
He is a cluster of excellencies undisparaged unaccompanied
pure from all by any defects. Here you may
commend The species being known in every
instance and the individual in none, you may
commend the species as much as you please
without putting yourself to the expence of commending
magnifying a single individual. He is a man
in whom praise exaggeration may indulge itself You may indulge
in his praises, your propensity to exaggeration
without imposing any tax the smallest tax upon your
own pride self-love selfishness and self-love self-importance
A Judge being a man of flesh and blood a person known has his
bad qualities as well as his good ones: his enviers
as well as his admirers: his rivals as
well as his dependents: his enemies as
well as his friends.
The consequence of their having no personality What is still better than having no person
is their having no name: if for the moment they
are thought by here and there a disappointed man to
have faults, their faults die not only with them
but long before them. The Scroggs's, and the Jeffries's,
had names: but the Juries without whom they could not have done what they did, have none.
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jeremy bentham |
floyd & co |
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arthur young |
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