[...?] August 1803

Evidence

Introd. Jurisprud.

Ch. Lawyer's Arts

''. 2. 1. Common

She has not faults of I no faults can spy:

She is all goodness, or all blindness I.

To keep upon terms with common sense love, even in the mouth of a poet, and one of the most panegyrical of all poets, could go so far as to admitt of this alternative: in speaking of the object of his [...?] /god or goddess of his idolatary/ no such confusion is ever made by the man of law.

If the defects /bad properties/ of the system could in the smallest degree be [...?] /alieviated/ by all this eulogy /be praisement/ there would be so much the more to be said in excuse for it than can be said at present. But as the praise has no such design, so also it has no /so neither has it any/ such tendency: the man of law having a valuable property in all the defects with which whatever by imbecility or by artifice he has loaded his own work, the sole design and object where it has any of all this praise, is that by being screened as long as possible from view, they may be kept upon the same or if possible a worse footing as long as possible.