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1820. Oct. 4.
3
Judge Hermosa
3

To make any thing like a compleat statement of the
grounds of this abovementioned persuasion, would require a volume:
it would require a compleat exposure of the system of
those same inviolable laws. But, for the justification of such a
persuasion, one single feature in that system is quite sufficient,
and that is the impenetrable darkness in which the whole procedure
is enveloped. You have seen already the use and reason of
that darkness. In Spain a man must be more or less than
man, if he does not put it to this use. For Spain, put Portugal,
Italy, Germany — Every country where Rome-bred law reigns, the
case will be little varied. I am speaking of judicatures. Where
there is no publicity, there is no justice. There is oppression, depredation,
corruption — every thing but justice. In return for his memento,
I will beg leave to present the learned gentleman with another:
and that is, that, to the man whose passions in him an
inviolably obedient star — I mean those passions to which we are desired
by the gallant and learned gentleman to be assumed of his
superiority, it is quite as easy to make profession of such superiority
as to him who really possesses it: and, that the stronger the
evidence is which his conduct affords in his favour, the further is
a man from any need to seeking a support to it in evidence
so weak as is that of the testimony of deposing to the general
probity of that same

Identifier: | JB/109/179/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1820-10-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
Folio number	179	Info in main headings field	Judge Hermosa
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D3 / E3
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	35834
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