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Place and Time
Tell a lawyer of this there is no help for it. There
is a mentality in task as there is in men: the death of either party is fatal to their existence.
[Cut the shroud of life, justice drops her scale.]
[How fine a field lies open to ingenuity in the
sort of India] To give + + the wisdom of the law
+ + Aided by the wisdom of this law what a scope does an Asiatic climate afford for the exercise of Asiatic ingenuity? in this behalf to full effect, transfer it to the
climate and the soil of India — The days how
broiling, the nights how damp, the Peons how obedient the marshes
of the Ganges how conveniently pestilential!
Pigot. Partner & L Chers.
Should he slip through your fingers before
his business is quite done, do not despair
You know, or if you do not know there are enough
to tell you, how the law abhors dispatch: months
perhaps years, are yet your own. Witnesses
may be delivered or got rid of kept out of the way in more ways
than one. Though you should be convicted, do
not give it up: till judgment is issued you are
safe. Should judgment even go against you,
what then? your design upon his fortune has
by this time taken effect: you quit the field
to him, and you enjoy the profits of your ingenuity
in a foreign country. There you must
amuse yourself for a month or two or at
th most a year or two, when an act of insolvency
calls you home. At this price, if
you
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