THE BARRISTER (continued).

7. He studies human nature, 252

8. He studies the law which he is to practise

with due consideration of the law of other

countries, 254

9. He is careful of his times of recreation, 254

10. When his name is up his industry is not down,

255

11. He relies with confidence upon the power of

industry and integrity, 255

12. He considers how his profession may tend to

warp his mind, 256

13. He is cautious that the indiscriminate defence

of right and wrong does not lower his high

sentiments, or weaken his love of truth, 257

14. He does not suffer himself to be inflated by

imaginary importance, 258

15. Particularly if he rises from an obscure situa-

tion, 259

16. He does not form an improper estimate of the

nature of power, 259

17. He is vigilant, that his profession may not

contract his mind, 260

18. He does not imagine that knowledge is centred

in the law, 260

19. His attention to forms does not make him un-

mindful of substance, 261

20. He does not suppose that all men are under

the influence of bad passions, 262

His duty to his Client, 262

1. He considers the principles upon which his

profession is founded, 263

2. And the reasons in favour and in opposition

to it, 265

3. Understanding the principle he enters on his

duties, 267

THE BARRISTER (continued).·

4. He does not mix himself with the client or the

cause, 267

5. The result is only for the judge, 267

6. He does not exercise any discretion as to the

suitor for whom he is to plead, 267

7. In some extreme cases he declines to act, 269

8. He acts as long as retained, and if liberated he

may act for his opponent, 270

9. He is ever ready to defend the accused, 271

10. He is cautious in listening to the complaints of

poverty, 271

11. He is anxious to diminish litigation, 272

12. Before he commences he estimates his own and

the power of his opponents, 272

272

13. And in proportion to its difficulty, he diligently
discovers the merits of his case,

14. He never intentionally mistakes either facts or

law, 273

15. He exerts his powers to strengthen his own

case, and to weaken his opponent's, 273

16. He arraigns superiors with the simplicity and

courage of truth, 273

17. He is strenuous in his client's cause, 273

18. He knows no fear, 274

His duty to the Court, 274

1. He is ever mindful of the respect due to the

court, 274

2. If insulted he is pained at the injury to good

feeling, 275

3. If insulted by an equal, he remembers the

respect due to the court, 275

4. If a judge forget himself, he feels for the infir-

mities of the best natures, 276

5. If he yield to anger, it does not rankle, 276

6. He is silent after judgment, 277

THE BARRISTER (continued).

Duties to his Profession, 277

1. He endeavours to improve the law, 277

2. He resists injudicious attempts to alter the law,

278

3. He does not resist improvement of the law, 278

4. He is aware that lawyers are not the best

improvers of law, 280

5. He resists erroneous modes of altering bad law,

281

6. He assists in the improvement of the law, 282

7. He is not deterred from improving by fear of

worldly loss, 283

8. Or by cries against reform, 283

9. If the principle is wrong he radically improves,

284

10. If right, he modifies it, 288

11. He exposes temporary, and counteracts perma-

nent defects, 285

12. He uses power of office to improve the law, 286

13. He retires to the charities of private life, 289

HAPPINESS, 289

PREVENTION OF CRIME, 295

THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, 301

CHARACTER AND DEATH OF LORD BACON,

309

PLEASURE OF THE FINE ARTS, 333

KNOWLEDGE.

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