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intellectual character of the seduced and that
to the moral character of the seducer. No distinction
better known in Westminster shall
be more frequently alluded to than that
between an argument to a Judge and an
argument to a Jury. The recipes for poisoning
Juries are as well known as the recipes
for poisoning rats, and almost as infallible.
The antidote can not be administered as the poison is though not more than equally ready The same cause, it will occur that furnishes
one hand ready to administer the poison will
furnish another hand equally ready to apply administer
the antidote. But the poisoner and
the physician do not contend upon equal
terms. But the contest is not an equal one.
The triumphs of reason are sure but they
are very slow: the triumphs of eloquence are
instantaneous. At the end of a certain number
of years perhaps the advocate on the right side
were he to live in the same house be a member
of the same club live habitually in the same society form part of the family with each Jury man and
and to never to change his side might find
he had some influence: or if the Jury man father of the family himself
was grown too old to grow wiser, the instruction
might have a better chance with the
rising generation. But Advocates do not live
in the same with Jury men, neither
is the Advocate always on the same side.
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