8 August 1805

Evidence

Introd. Jurisprud. B

Ch. III Lawyer's Art

1. In the first place upon all these /the above/ topics, on the subject of these vices, a dead silence. What can not be defended must at any rate /all along/ be pretermitted /passed over/ /Where you can say nothing to the advantage of your cause, say nothing./ Such is the advice given by the great master of insincerity Cicero, to all the defenders of bad causes.

2. The /Their/ next resource /precaution observed/, particulars affording no room for /so little matter of/ eulogy has been to confine themselves to generals: to assume and assert and trumpet forth its excellence in the most extravagant terms, no matter how extravagant.