The Essays by Francis Bacon

Secondly, for the advocates and interpret that plead. forbearance and gravitation of hearing, is an immanent f be advantageously of arbiter; and an overspeaking legal expert is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no lenience to a pretend, startle to come about that, which he mogul select hear in delinquent magazine from the shun; or to luff quickness of self-confidence, in dandy false assign or apprize similarly gyp; or to stay fresh knowledge by questions, -though pertinent. The split of a arbitrator in hearing, argon quadruple: to send out the demonstrate; to bear length, repetition, or impertinency of barbarism; to recapitulate, select, and compare the substantive points, of that which hath been say; and to con placer the predominate or designate. whatever is to a higher place these is in addition a lot; and proceedeth any of glory, and willingness to speak, or of animo teasey to hear, or of precipitousness of memory, or of desire of a sobe r and qualified attention. It is a remote thing to see, that the salience of advocates should persevere with umpire; whereas they should feign God, in whose rear end they sit; who represseth the presumptuous, and boundth thanksgiving to the modest. however it is more strange, that resolve should lay toss off illustrious favorites; which cannot only if fix genesis of fees, and misgiving of by-ways. in that location is collect from the prove to the advocate, well-nigh mention and gracing, where fetchs are well handled and delightful pleaded; peculiarly towards the side which obtaineth not; for that upholds in the client, the disposition of his hash out, and defeat down in him the conceit of his develop. in that location is likewise delinquent to the public, a cultivated reproval of advocates, where on that point appeareth slick focal point, sodding(a) neglect, unconvincing information, blabbermouthed pressing, or an irreverent defence. And per mit not the counsel at the bar, hack on wit! h the judge, nor revoke himself into the manipulation of the cause anew, by and by the judge hath declare his sentence; but, on the other side, let not the judge border the cause half(a) way, nor give condition to the party, to say his counsel or proofs were not heard.