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or though it were but of one of them,
this uncertainty may at command be
changed into unanimity: and this unanimity,
if not the same thing as the certainty,
will at any rate be the best evidence
of it, or, at any rate, the best consolation
for the want of it.
Having them up from
these several Courts — taken them up
from the seat of aggregate wisdom,
which they occupy altogether, — pass
through this machine the twelve
Judges, you save arguments before
the sages; pass through it the members
of the House of Lords you save Arguments
on Appeals, and Writs of Error before
the House of Lords.
To return to the unlearned
twelve — to each one of them, application
is at the same time made of two distinguishable —
two widely different — instruments.
One is the Oath. Of the
application made of this instrument,
what in this case is the object? To secure,
in this instance, verity to that declaration
of his which is about to be made.
2. The other instrument is
a certain quantity of pain: pain, according
as he and the others comport
themselves; increasing, in given quan-
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