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Place and Time
-rupted rangs the same extent of territory: the
the subject according to the vulgar but significant
adage has two shops to go to: each values
takes taking the indignation due to constant wickedness is wiped away obliterated by the complacency exerted by modern virtue: pride to itself in proportion to the numbers
of its suitors, [each takes the only secure course
which it can take] seeks in the only course
in which it can securely seek the gratification
of that passion, by raising to the utmost pitch
the in integrity intelligence and integrity of its decisions:
and the only war which we see waged between
them at present is a war of decent silent industry
and honest emulation.
Owing however to that aversion dread of unnecessary
exertion which is so natural to
minds fully occupied, or to that attachment
to [antient] forms of which scarce any lawyer
has yet been able to divest himself, the original
stain of falshood still remains, infecting
the whole mass of procedure as at first.
The same stale lie [continues to be is told as that was
told at first: [and often an end is to punish
falshood falsehood is , in order to punish
usurpation, usurpation.] and many a sober drudge
believes or endeavors to believe, that + + unless the courts continued "to render themselves contemptible they would be no longer formidable; and that unless the laws
of
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