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1829. May 16. ++
Petitions
2
Dispatch Court.
§. 5. Procedure
exemplified
not a display of
eloquence
an official promissory oath in the accustomed
style: a bubble of vague-generality matter, meaning
nothing, binding nobody: employed for no better
purpose than that of mischievous delusion,
by producing, in the minds of the unscrutinising
multitude, the belief of in the existence of a sense
of appropriate moral obligation in a receptacle
in which no such sense has place; — an
ideal decoration employed for stage effect — a
chain held forth as if worn by the minds, like
those well-polished ones which give grace to
the person, and pathos to the discourse, while
they oppose no real restraint to the motions of
the actor, upon another theatre.
Its object the application
of the popular sanction
to securing good conduct
on the part of the
tribunal
No: — is it is a pointedly-intended and
strongly relied on instrument of judicature.
What it has for its object is —
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