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19 July 1810 Fallacies
But the truth is that in this any more than
any occasion was any sacrifice made of professional and personal
interest to public interest by this illustrious and
successful disclaimer: it was the sacrifice made
in the shape of interest was the sacrifice of the ordinary
and standing professional interest to the extraordinary
interest of the person and the moment: to
the interest created by the loss of power and the
passion of jealousy and envy having for their object
the form and power and reputation of a rival
superior at the time in office and in influence.
It had for its object, its at that same generally instances and universally anxious
object the fixing upon the Lord Chief Justice
of the Kings Bench Superior Court Lord Mansfield the imputation
of "every Vice, folly and Passion to which human
nature is viable.
As to vices, follies and passions, folly there
was none, nothing this could come fairly under that
name on either side. Vices and passions the same
in this one and in the other Bench: the in kind the
same as every burger brings with him and have
behind him in every Bench situate lying and being in which the Great Hall.
The course taken for the display by the Chief Justice of the Upper Bench of his power was
to do a little good in a bad way: in suchso bad a way
as to counter-vail the raise up mischief enough
to outweigh it. it was the course of the Chief Justiceexcept to much as were done<add>could in</add>would not in the shape of amendment of the law to do any the smallest particle of good, nor suffer to be done any which in any plan it should be in his power to prevent.
but be done by dividing in thethat popular side which the
interest of his reputation and his polities had engaged
here to otherwise it was the determination taken by theennobled Chief
Justice of his Lower Bench, never to do any in this shape
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