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Dec 1805 Evidence Introd. False
Dec 1805

Evidence

Introd. False Ends

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. Opposition of interests between the authors of the system and the people subject to it.

What grosser or more fatal delusion than for a man to take his natural and irreconcilable enemies for his most /several/ faithful and zealous friends? upon that supposition to think and speak and not upon every /the most important/ occasion of life? with content and confidence to behold in these his enemies the arbiters of his fate? the afflictions, the grievous and ruinous afflictions, which to their profit (not to say for their profit) he is suffering dearly at their hands, to refer them to the wrath of Providence, is the perversity of [...?sable] nature[?].

On this head a distinction seems to be commonly taken by the public mind. Lawyers are divided /are in their as in that [...?] of [...?]/ by it into classes: Attornies Advocates Judges. With the interest of the suitor the interest of the Attorney is ended but too [...?] at variance. The Attorney is accordingly a distinguishable[?] man. Between In regard /relation/ to that same public interest the /and/ interest of the Advocate there may perhaps be a little difference, but if there be, the effects of it are outweighed by the known [...?] /[...?]/ of their characters attached to their branch of the profession, and the Advocate if not the constant friend of the public, is at any rate not the constant enemy. and the Advocate, according to the scale into which the fee is dropped, is as ready /no loss/ to shew himself the friend of the public than the enemy.

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