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Excerpt from The English Practice: A Statement, Showing Some of the Evils and Absurdities of the Practice of the English Common Law, as Adopted in Several of the United States, and Particularly in the State of New-York
It Is not, perhaps, to be, expected that the lawyers, as a body, should be more exempt than others from human frailty in this selfish world each one seeketh to magnify his own apostleship it is not surprising, that the gentleman of the learned professions should avail themselves of the artificial learning which they have toiled hard to acquire. When the physicians are willing to dismiss their erudite theories, and still more erudite phraseology, and are as well disposed to cure a disease by a garden-simple, as a fu reign drug'; when the clergy sh'all arrogate to themselves no thing more than they are entitled to, in virtue of their more ar dent, elevated, and enlightened piety then it may well be hoped that the gentlemen of the legal profession will Join heart and hand in the causeof reform, dismiss their useless mysteries, 'and make le'gal science more consonant to common sense and sound reason.
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