29 Aug. 1812

Evidence Introd

Introd

Ch. 15. Preappointed

Obstacles

False

Genuflexion is the attitude which every writing lawyers puts himself into when speaking of a man especially, of a man in power, of his own tribe. Genuflexion or rather prostration is of course the attitude which Blackstone puts himself into when speaking of the learned brotherhood as occupied altogether or successively in the raising of the venerable castle the fabric of the common law. That in so doing laws were the tools they worked with, and how in the [...?] for employment they fought one another with those tools all this [...?] shows us and still in the same attitude: nor which thus busied in the delineation of his heroes and their exploits does it occurr to him that it is to change his posture, when representing them in the act of filling their pockets by the help of that vice, for which, when applied to the same purpose, men less favoured by fortune than themselves were so [...?] sent to the gallows, and even by themselves