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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
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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