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Obstacles. Professional. Lawyers
He and other learned Men of the Roman Church
have thought fit it of service to their Cause, since the
Resurrection of Letters, to detect some Impostures, and to
depose, or to , according to the French Expression,
now and then a reputed Saint, but they seem in doing
this to mean no more than a sort of Composition: they give
up some Fables that they may defend others with a greater
advantage, and they make Truth serve as a Stalking-horse to
Error
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Obst. Profess. Law V.
Who consider it rather as a Game to play, than as a Science to
improve.
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in delays which he then commends profitable, have
Obstacles Prejudices of Lawyers Fortescue's Elogia
<p>since been taken away by the expedient of
Ejectments.
Instance of his panegyrical disposition in saying that as pledges
had never been connected corrupted of taking by Banks. 126. B.
another — exaggeration of the liability of the sort 65
Better for 20 guilty to escape than one Innocent suffer — 62
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Obstacles Prejuges of Lawyers
There is nothing which a your true Lawyer enjoys
like what is called a curious question — which
may serve him as a nut to crack — If the
Law was plain it would lose half its merit
with him — Crack his nut for him, &
you spoil his play thing
He looks upon the as a game to play[a game at which there is much to be gotten by
those who hold the stakes — Bad]
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