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The consideration that such is the stuff
that Judges and Law-writers are made
of, may might help us in no small degree
might afford no small assistance in accounting for the abuses and creation
and preservation of the abuses and absurdities
which together with a very few strong
lines of excellence thinly scattered by the hands
of chance, compose make up the fabrick of the
English Common Law. France learns and
for a considerable time has teemed not only with
reforming Judges, and but reforming Advocates
Go to the National Assembly you will see it is full of men of law
lawyers labouring with the most generous
assiduity eagerness to run ruin their own trade.
You may there see the first man at the
Bar sacrificing his profession [from the
first dawn of liberty hope and reformation at
in the vigour flower of his age and in the morning meridian
of his fortune to lend a hand his shoulder to the wheel to the work
of reformation at 15p a day. In England
whatever powers of any account have been
employ'd by lawyers upon the defects of a system made
up
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