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July 1810 24 Ch | | Cause and Obstacle
July 1810 24

Ch | | Cause and Obstacle

So likewise in their way to the Bench /Benches/, while, in the great insincerity shop called the Bar they are serving their time once /formerly/ under the denomination [...?] still in the character of apprentices in and to the arts of falshood.
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    To the Advocate in such his character it is not possible without the sacrifice to sell his services without "tainting and contaminating", without "degrading and debasing" and that day by day, and cause by cause, the moral part of his mind. Even when by accident placed in the right, much more when by like accident placed on the wrong side, misrepresentation, even by self-conscious falshood, still more indispensably by fallacious reticence, is his perpetual task.

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