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upon whom all his powers are employ'd more
whom he looks up to, who have not been what
he is, and who watch him with that eye of
jealousy and suspicion with which the natural
friends of mankind the species will naturally regard its
natural enemies. [ The persons upon whom the
choicest powers of the English Advocate are exerted
are the witnesses whom he insults and
the Jury men into whose nose he puts his hook.
Accordingly,] though association does much towards
confounding characters, a Chancery - man who
practices solely before a single Judge, and who
has nothing to do with Juries, is an animal of
a species perceptibly less venomous than an Old-
Bailey or a Nisi Prius Advocate. It is that
in the English bar we may find exhibits the only
one of the very few spots of any place spot [perhaps upon earth] where thererears an
a triumphant head. It is held infamous [even]
among men of professed gallantry to boast even among
one another of the wives or virgins they have ruined:
but what theme so favourite among English
Lawyers as the history of the Juries they have
seduced?
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