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31 May 1805
Evidence
§. 5. Channels through which the profit matter of corruption may find its way to
the Judge.
Where things are established upon any such secure and solid footing, what Judge
can do otherwise than find a foreman in Judge blackstone? What
can be expected to be less sure, than Judge Blackstone
was that By what Judge can any doubt be entertained, but that † †III. 267. "the intricacy of our legal process will be found,
"where attentively considered, to be one of those troublesome but
"not dangerous evils, which have their root in the frame of
"our constitution, and which therefore can never be cured, without
"hazarding every thing that is dear to us." Quere what
is here meant by us? as people, or as lawyers?
She Bla It has no faults, or I no faults can spy.
She It is all goodness, or all blindness I.
Thus candid could even love be in the person of a poet
but candour like this is not to be expected in a lawyer's love.
He allows of no such alternative.
The all perfection of his Duliânca must be an article in the
creed, not of himself and squire, but every passenger who that
comes he meets on his way.
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