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... middle men between them and the litigating parties , ( we are vastly fond of middle men on all occasions ) and wit- nesses on both sides , who are to give evidence of the truth as well as they can , or will . The courts are now sitting ...
... middle men between them and the litigating parties , ( we are vastly fond of middle men on all occasions ) and wit- nesses on both sides , who are to give evidence of the truth as well as they can , or will . The courts are now sitting ...
Page 125
... middle men , engaged in forwarding affairs be- tween the borrowers and lenders . " And now , " said L - , " as we sometime ago were talking of eating , we will go home to our humble repast , sweetened by the hunger of exercise , eaten ...
... middle men , engaged in forwarding affairs be- tween the borrowers and lenders . " And now , " said L - , " as we sometime ago were talking of eating , we will go home to our humble repast , sweetened by the hunger of exercise , eaten ...
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... middle - men ; then why should she not act on her own suggestion , remove head and tail , or at least all unsightly excrescences , and become all middle - men ? That the objec- tion , ' that the middle classes would then be- come ...
... middle - men ; then why should she not act on her own suggestion , remove head and tail , or at least all unsightly excrescences , and become all middle - men ? That the objec- tion , ' that the middle classes would then be- come ...
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Page 160 - The man who resolutely divesting himself of habit and prejudice, of the false impressions imbibed from early childhood, resolves to know Truth, if haply she may be found, is sure to be assailed, threatened, mimicked, and insulted, with abuse the most pitiful and inane, with derision the most paltry, stupid, and futile, wholly unworthy of the exaltation to which human attainmentboasts to have arrived. 'His honesty is decried as presumption, his avowal of naked truth as sedition; his exposure of existing...
Page 162 - Necker,'that reason suits neither you or me: Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...