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[And that nothing hinderd but that] I might,
[like other people] might, had I been so
minded have made my profit of the balderdash
of the Law.

A voluntary poverty.
Neve milni noccat quod nobis semper Achivi
Propict: Made a sacrifice of [the hope of] riches not to the idleness of fanatic solitude, but to
the hope of serving my country by labours
to which I wish to see no other period than that
[that of] my life.

While embarked in practise, I was frequently
in distress: but those who knew me then most
intimately well know that my distress was
not for want of Clients: but because the
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Clients came.

I saw I could not do justice to any them:
because the materials out of which was to be
extracted the Counsel that they wanted were
not within my reach

I saw Different departments of those materials
[were] in the hands of different monopolies
I might have had a share in any of these
monopolies: an indulgent father anxious for every was desirous
to pay the price: but I thought it more to
the advantage of my own fame, and for the benefit
of the public, to try to break them
I saw nothing in my moderate abilities that
should disqualify me from the pursuit:
stand to have an opinion and a price I would call my own because I thought I saw others prosper
in it with abilities less than moderate.

I wish there were nothing in what Janius has
said, that the indiscriminate defence of rights and
wrong the understanding, while it

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the heart: I wished to preserve keep both
unimpaired for the service of my Country.
In Britain no man is beneath that service:
I even I might have my hopes.

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Almost from the very eve of my embracing
the profession, As soon almost as I had arrived at manhood I devoted myself
in silence and solitude to the service
of my country No sponsor to lead me to the altar: no kind. Without thanks, in
any present hopes of any: against
the persuasions of my few friends: against the
wishes of a father, whose tenderness to me commanded
obedience a sacrifice of any less imperious
duty. Obliged to conceal the object
of my endeavours, to avoid the scorn that
attends mighty enterprizes with faculties in the hands
inadequate of feeble undertakers: obliged to pass for
Hearing myself called bearing the reproach of - idle, amidst the strongest efforts of my
industry: obliged to pass for imprudent, in
slighting the emoluments of a lucrative profession
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obliged to pass for pusillanimous, in
shrinking from objects labour which I left not
but for what appeared still greater objects greater labour.

Without fortune or connections: without
any thing to support me but the ambition zeal for
employing to such high purposes the
moderate talents God has given me.

Polemica. Egotistica.

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Folio number	135	Info in main headings field	polemica egotistica
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