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LAW

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AND

LAWYERS

IN

LITERATURE

BY

IRVING BROWNE

AUTHOR OF "HUMOROUS PHASES OF THE LAW," "SHORT STUDIES
OF GREAT LAWYERS"

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BOSTON

SOULE AND BUGBEE

1883

Gov 6922.5

1883. Mar. 29.

Mind Fund.

COPYRIGHT, 1882,

BY SOULE AND BUGBEE.

Franklin Press:
RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,

BOSTON.

INTRODUCTION.

T is my purpose to show how the Law and

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the Lawyers have been depicted in Literature. I shall do this by extracts from the chief dramatists, novelists, historians, essayists, and moralists, with occasional notes of illustration, suggestion, or protest. There is, undoubtedly, and always has been, a tendency on the part of mankind to rail against and make fun of all the learned professions. To call the clergyman a hypocrite, the physician a murderer, and the lawyer a liar, has long been one of the favorite amusements of a numerically considerable part of mankind. Much of this is mere badinage, but a good deal is serious; and in the portion that is not avowedly serious, there is frequently a grain of earnest. The mass of men do not love men who are able to get a living, and attain honors, without the use of money or muscle. The capitalist thinks very

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