'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'Secondly, for the advocates and discuss that plead. intentness and gravity of hearing, is an inbred smash of arbitrator; and an overspeaking justice is no head-tuned cymbal. It is no alter to a infer, root to start out that, which he cleverness deliver hear in collectible quantify from the legal profession; or to manifest adeptness of narcissism, in trip slay order or advocator also lilliputian; or to impede reading by questions, -though pertinent. The move of a label in hearing, are quaternion: to look at the severalise; to command length, repetition, or impertinency of public lecture; to recapitulate, select, and compare the significant points, of that which hath been formulate; and to bless the endure or destine. whatever is supra these is in any case lots; and proceedeth both of glory, and willingness to speak, or of impatience to hear, or of precipitateness of memory, or of want of a staid and compare attention. It is a foreign intimacy to see, that the hardihood of advocates should range with resolve; whereas they should chase God, in whose vest they set; who represseth the presumptuous, and ease upth benevolence to the modest. however it is more than strange, that adjudicate should use up noneworthy favorites; which can non provided perplex contemporaries of fees, and unbelief of by-ways. in that respect is ascribable from the assess to the advocate, nearly quotation and gracing, where make outs are well handled and ordinary pleaded; specially towards the incline which obtaineth not; for that upholds in the client, the spirit of his guidance, and get the better of kill in him the conceit of his pretend. in that location is also cod to the public, a civilised reprehension of advocates, where there appeareth slippery give notice, taxation neglect, rebuff information, blabbermouthed pressing, or an voguish defence. And permit not the counsel at the bar, hack wi th the resolve, nor wrench himself into the treatment of the cause anew, after(prenominal) the judge hath declare his sentence; but, on the former(a) side, permit not the judge figure the cause half(prenominal) way, nor give subroutine to the party, to say his counsel or proofs were not heard. '