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30 Jany 1812
Evidence
Conceive this to be the course prescribed the only course –appointed (practised it could
not be) for coming at the truth in the House of Commons: – conceive
this, and let any well experienced Equity Draughtsman say –
how long before the first answer had come in, been completed, the House would
have been found itself made into a barrack for the troops of
France. Bonaparte.(a) (a) Note in another page
But this All this while, the mode best suited to the coming at truth
through evidence, does it really change its nature, according
as the person who is, or pretends to be, in search of it
sits with a gown or without a gown – in one part
of Westminster Hall or in another? If so, then, ⊞ ⊞ but then only, so it is, that the
mode by which, would if pursued in a Committee room the whole country would be
involved be in – by the such
of so it is that practiced where it is, the good
people of that same country are in, with full knowledge
of the effect, consigned one after another to individual
ruin, oppression and depredation being with having all along
open eyes been practiced under the sacred teams of Equity
and Justice.
involved in prompt and universal ruin –
that this one of the only two modes of inquiry searching for truth
employed, when they have had their choice, by English
Judges, may really be well adapted, and by its employers
may really have been thought to be well
adapted, to the purposes for which it is professed to be employed –
to the purposes dignified designated by the sacred names of Equity and Justice.(b) (b) Note in another page.
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