Evenings With a Reviewer, Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from Evenings With a Reviewer, Vol. 2 of 2: Or a Free and Particular Examination of Mr. Macaulay´s Article on Lord Bacon, in a Series of Dialogues So that while he had had more opportunities for rapid advancement than any other distinguished lawyer of his day, he had in fact risen more slowly, I believe, than any one of them. Now however, at last, he is going to rise rapidly. In the autumn of 1613 Sir Thomas Fleming, Chief Justice of the King´s Bench, died; and Bacon, making a push, got Coke transferred to that place from the Common Pleas, the Attorney to Coke´s place, and himself to the Attorney´s. A. Making a push? Then that arrangement was brought about by him. B. Yes; and much against Coke´s will, who is said to have acceded, not without tears; though it was an advance in dignity and accompanied with all marks of honour. I am not sure that it ought to rank as one of Bacon´s best day´s works; for I cannot think that Coke, with all his law, was well qualified for a judge in criminal causes. It is true that he was fearless and upright enough, but he was wanting (as it seems to me) not only in true impartiality, but also in the faculty of weighing moral evidence; being precipitate in taking first impressions, obstinate in sticking to them, credulous to all that favoured them, deaf to all that made against them; and apt to pronounce judgement before the case had been half heard. These however are sentiments in which few people will agree with me now and probably nobody would have agreed then. The whole Court of Common Pleas (down to the very clerks they say) wept with him when he left them; but it was only as we weep for our friends when they are going to a better place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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