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Juries
be so fit for the business, sensible and upright
because they are Jurymen, though the very point theory
in question is whether they are it is likely they should
turn out so: just as Lords are wise, virtuous
and valiant because they are Lords. His geese
are always swans, wherever, for the purpose of
the argument it is convenient they should be so:
and what makes them so is their being called so.
Chosen by lot? what does that mean? Common
Jurymen are not chosen by lot; but appointed by
the Sheriff: and Special Juries are an aristocratical
tribunal not to be had without an extra payingment
of twelve guineas with et ceteras,
about two years of an Englishman's average expenditure.
Sensible and upright Jurymen
bother the best in investigators of truth? what
better than a Judge Judges who besides being sensible
and upright are is as he would stile them in his language sage
and reverenced and venerable, but without measuring, and upon the lowest
estimate experienced and conversant on the business.
men who are only sensible and upright indeed but fearfully raw and unpracticed, are they
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