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by these Capitals will see that a more
absurd and vapid scrap of declamation,
one more unfit to serve as a
faithful guide to Judgement was never
offered out of a lawyers or other Sophists
mouth.
The object of all this invective is but
a word a word near of kin (to the) in signification
to the words judgement and
reason and without which the purposes
of discourse could with as much difficulty
be provided for as without either
of those. Exercising discretion a Judge
is according to this rhapsody a tyrant:
and what is he if he does not
exercise it. For all the ordinary purposes
of judicial language the word discretion
is scarcely less necessary than the
word Judge; and in despite of impossibility
suppose it discarded what would
be the consequence? that Judges honest
no less than dishonest would be obliged to
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]] |
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