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The honourable gentleman throws down his glove gauntlet
before to the Crown - Lawyers: to them he "appeals
for the truth and fidelity Talk of truth and fidelity! and appealappeal to lawyers! and to Crown-lawyers! as if they had any What have they to do with truth, or with any thing that is called fidelity except with it be fidelity to the thing to do with truth or with fidelity of any kind except to the power that pays them! of the description."
appeal in such a cause to them! to them indeed! What is truth to them?
What idea have they of fidelity except to the purse that pays them.
The hirelings, hear this,& sit stand mute: or is the notion of
hirelings to do when public good alone calls upon them
to speak and their the seal padlock which interest prejudice
has fastened put and prejudice join in fastening on their life is
not opened broken by a fee. Is truth the real object of
the honourable champion's passion? will he enter the
lists for with a disinterested votary admirer? will he
condescend vouchsafe to break a bann for her with an
untested or a bigamist, not ennobled with venality, with a plebeian unennobled by combatant whom no vanality has ennobled who is
no Thing! lawyer nor any mans , but
the lawyer of the people
Identifier: | JB/035/075/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35. |
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constitutional code; evidence; procedure code |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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arthur young |
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