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Ch. Self-trumpeters
§.2. Exposure

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M the Impotence

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S when in indecision
and consequent
delay: — to a mind to which no other
subject should present
to his mind any thing
but doubts; any such
arithmetical proportion
must present certainty.

But where through by indecision that that species of weakness inbecillity which
in judicature shews itself in the shape of indecision,
the rate of pace of judicature is rendered slack to a certain
degree tardy, the utter unfitness of the man for his situation
is a matter of fact that cannot by any possibility
be a secret to himself: though no other
subject that ever came came before him should to him be have been a
source of any thing but doubts, yet on this one subject
all any such thing as doubt is sure in this instance
impossible.

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In this case not
only the nature but
in degree of the unfitness
must have
forced itself into his
mind: nor can his
strainings to keep
less short of the ordinary
pace fail of
being accompanied
with the painful sensation
of self-conscious
impotence.

Suppose for example that the nature of the causes
being supposed the same or both (as in a judicatory or
two judicatories having the same field of jurisdiction
taking the space of a year or so can not but to
any such purpose as the present be the case) the rate
of dispatch given by the Judge in question does not
amount to so much as one fifth of the average rate
The Not only the nature but the degree of unfitness
is here matter of intention exhibited
by common plain arithmetic. It will be so to any other
person to whom it is made known by a mere glance at the number and nothing more than
the numbers the numbers should be perceptible. But How Much
more must it have been to the man himself on his
part no exertion can have been made to reach
the ordinary pace or any approach to the ordinary
pace without being accompanied with the painful
sensation of that attends self conscious impotence.

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[With Elder's, Sid
&c constant self-trumpeting:
contrast Romilly
constant abstinence
from do.]

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Date_1	1811-05-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-12
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