31 July 1805

Evidence

Introd. Jurisprudent

Ch. II. Vices

''.9. Incorrigibility

In this natural and incurable incorrigibility may be found one of the causes of that /this/ extravagant strain of eloquence[?] of which jurisprudential law is the subject, and in which lawyers in general but more especially English lawyers are so fond of indulging themselves. Being so palpably incapable /manifestly unsusceptible/ of corruption, to prove it from the misfortune of being estimated at its true value, it is the more necessary that men should be impregnated /possessed/ with the notion of its being so /too/ superexcellent that it needs /to need any/ more[?]. But of this in another place.