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Fallacies 3 Ch. | | Authority worshippers

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2. Lawyers where trustworthy

Many and many are the cases in which while the rule of action continues in this high shape, an /the/ Astrologer in the next street, if he were permitted to give opinions, by looking[?][ at him[?] would give you as good and well-founded a guess, as the /any/ Gentleman in the /a/ robe /valet[?]/. The learned gentlemans /lawyers/ guess[?] will cost you from a couple to twice or thrice or ten times as many guineas: the astrologer you may hav if you have is at all, for half a crown. But /Unfortunately/ the lawyers have put down the astrologers accusing them of defrauding men /selling /dealing in/ deception/ without licence, and as a sort of smaugglers who ought not to be suffered to undersell and ell[...?] /supplant/ the fair traders