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July 1810 22
1°
Fallacies
Ch. Authority worshippers
§.3. Lawyers untrustworthiness
9 5 5
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But how natural soever it may be in one
sense that the makers of punishment should make it
for their own use it is not natural in any sense
that they should make it for any such purpose as
that of being applied to their own necks, their own
backs or their own purses.
17 or 8
These manufacturers
of punishment will
not make it for
their own necks,
backs, or purses
Many accordingly are the instances in which a bad
law maker has in manner above mentioned been
by a revered or learned colleague confederate trumpeted been b
forth as a good one, none how severe soever the damage in which an indictment
has been preferred or so much as one action brought
as and for such trumpeting.
Unlicensed astrologers deliverers of predictions, unlicensed character-givers givers of characters
all sink under the irresistible weight and authority
of the only licensed ones.
By any of these Judge character-givers is any
character ever given of any learned person such learned manufacturer as of one
who if he knew what he was about would willingly
be in making any such portion of law as
should be simple certain and intelligible — of framing any such
rule of procedure as should be conducive to the reducing
of the stock of factitious delay vexation and expense
in this evidence were there no other he might without
injustice be set down and recorded as ipsi facti convicted upon view
of the offence of of that species of fraud which consists takes the shape of false-character-giving.
18 or 9
By no one of any
one of these character
givers is any such
character so much as
pretended to be given
as that of one whose
exertions were or were
about to be employed
in correcting the abuses
or imperfections of the
law.
For a character a
false conviction in
view were to be
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