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When the Advocate is transformed into the
Judge, and the powers which have been exerted
with so much alacrity in the cause
of fraud disingenuity and chicane are bought off at a
vast price for the dull service of truth and
Justice, the motives to corruption quit erase him,
but the unclean spirit of corruption which had quit from his abode hold so long hurried him through but the place tabernacle is defiled of true wisdom or generous among great he is sealed and the spirit of philanthropy humanity and reformation will visit no such whitened sepulchre. no mot the character is formed and
no motives inducements to enter into the thankless paths
of reformation take their place. can now be heard find entrance. The best
of sort of English Judge is he whose hours
of leisure and relaxation, now considerably exercised
in number, are occupied as those in the manner of the
sportsmen are after the chase. He now looks
backwards instead of forwards: his amusement
consists in recounting and commemorating the
history of his past triumphs and defeats, in
re-entangling and disentangling some knotty
point which chicane and absurdity had
tied and which a little common sense in the workshop of legislation
the hand of a legislator and animated <add>instigated by</add> common philanthropy meeting in the
paths of legislation would might have cut in pieces,
together with a thousand other knots of the
same like explain at one stroke. If now his
leisure] thoughts can creep beyond himself his own
the spleen of his own concerns the spleen of his own personal concerns and those of
his
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