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pray upon his mind: his patience at length wearied out.
The people in their turn become odious to him. He
then begins Despairing of their affection,⊞ ⊞ and through despair affecting to despise it, he gives
more & more into measures calculated as he thinks to guard him against
their enmity: he makes war upon them in return
for the war they begin with making upon him. And thus
It is well if before he finishes his career he does not fall into that criminal line of
conduct with which was at first imputed to him without
foundation.

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And to what is all this owing? —
Accused incessantly at the bar of the public⊞ ⊞ he lets judgment go against him by default: he says
nothing in his defence. What wonder if he is condemned?
(To continue the metaphor) It is an event
not absolutely out of the course of things if by some
at some inauspicious hour he should be, according to the power of what passes among
the for justice, executed.

40.
How then should he seek to help
himself? There are but two ways. To answer himself
at the same bar, or to do as (like) other Defendants when they can, – to employ others to answer
for him. These advocates must either serve
The first is impossible: unless he could (find means
to) multiply himself as polypus's are multiplied.
He must then employ others as his advocates. These
advocates must either serve gratis, or like other advocates
they must be paid. Should they then be paid? Must he then pay them?
The idea is unknown to his magnanimity. – Employ
hirelings? Away with the proposal idea. And yet it is some
what singular of what to every other man & on every other
occasion is customary and allowable, should to one man alone
& on one occasion alone be disgraceful: as if it were
in

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