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A Tour Through London,
take the utmost pleasure in cutting each other up , with that keen weapon , the tongue . The gown arid the wi g , like , the painted bodies of the ancient Britons , seemed designed to strike terror into the enemy . But under the enormous wig , now and then appeared a natural head of hair ; so that both the man and his subject ' appeared in a false dress . Each of the counsel retains in viewas the result of victorya sin *
, , gular robe among the Judges , perhaps among the Peers . Before I quit Guild-Hall , I shall take a tri p to the Royal College of Greenwich , and the Cathedral of St . Paul , both which happened the next day . The beautiful palace of Greenwich gives pleasure to the beholder . I attended to the situation , the buildings , the paintings , the dress ,-the , the leand
manners , peop , was pleased with all . I considered its twenty-five hundred inhabitants as an assemblage of men from every part of the British dominions . —That among them were eyes which had surveyed every country on the globe . Seeing one man in a jeh low coat with red sleeves , You seem , says I , by the singularity of your dress , to fill some important office in these splendid regions ? : " No , Sir , " he replied , with the modesty of one whose manners
were softened by long service , " the reason of this dress is , I . gbtdrunk , and beat my comrade . " : And so your dress , then , is -the reward of your victory ? You have not forgot the art of fi ghting . ; You have only changed your weapon , from the sword to the : fist . But if you are in a dress of disgrace , why do you not keep within ' ? " They oblige me , as an additional punishment , to appear in public /' Why then you only fare like eveiy one else they all in pub
; appear - lic , who can dress , like you , in the garment of victory . The same day I attended divine service at St . Paul ' s , where the Bishop of L preached in a black gown and white sleeves . It immediately occurred to my thoughts , whether his Lordship did not acquire that distinguished dress as the result of conquest , gained by another keen weapon , termed a pen . The stranger , too , would be to this black and white
apt _ suppose , dress inferior to that which is all white ; or , that two colours , like those at Greenwich , were a degree below one : for a speaker , in white , addressed the . Deity , but the Bishop only the people . I then entered another court in Guild-Hall , which was crowded . I attempted a passage . The-bar-keeper prevented me with , "Are you an attorney , Sir ? " Something like one . " Come , Sir , I do not know them all . "
. Here Lord Mansfield sat as chief ; on his ri ght was Lord Rodney , as his friend . I could not forbear contemplating , that I had before me two of the principal characters of the age ; one stood at the head of the law , the other of arms ; they had ° both done signal service to their country ; that country had heaped favours upon both , and yet was debtor to both . The practice of the bar is not so much to open , as to complicate a case . He raises his reputation who says the smartest thinsrs , not VOL . vi . I i
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A Tour Through London,
take the utmost pleasure in cutting each other up , with that keen weapon , the tongue . The gown arid the wi g , like , the painted bodies of the ancient Britons , seemed designed to strike terror into the enemy . But under the enormous wig , now and then appeared a natural head of hair ; so that both the man and his subject ' appeared in a false dress . Each of the counsel retains in viewas the result of victorya sin *
, , gular robe among the Judges , perhaps among the Peers . Before I quit Guild-Hall , I shall take a tri p to the Royal College of Greenwich , and the Cathedral of St . Paul , both which happened the next day . The beautiful palace of Greenwich gives pleasure to the beholder . I attended to the situation , the buildings , the paintings , the dress ,-the , the leand
manners , peop , was pleased with all . I considered its twenty-five hundred inhabitants as an assemblage of men from every part of the British dominions . —That among them were eyes which had surveyed every country on the globe . Seeing one man in a jeh low coat with red sleeves , You seem , says I , by the singularity of your dress , to fill some important office in these splendid regions ? : " No , Sir , " he replied , with the modesty of one whose manners
were softened by long service , " the reason of this dress is , I . gbtdrunk , and beat my comrade . " : And so your dress , then , is -the reward of your victory ? You have not forgot the art of fi ghting . ; You have only changed your weapon , from the sword to the : fist . But if you are in a dress of disgrace , why do you not keep within ' ? " They oblige me , as an additional punishment , to appear in public /' Why then you only fare like eveiy one else they all in pub
; appear - lic , who can dress , like you , in the garment of victory . The same day I attended divine service at St . Paul ' s , where the Bishop of L preached in a black gown and white sleeves . It immediately occurred to my thoughts , whether his Lordship did not acquire that distinguished dress as the result of conquest , gained by another keen weapon , termed a pen . The stranger , too , would be to this black and white
apt _ suppose , dress inferior to that which is all white ; or , that two colours , like those at Greenwich , were a degree below one : for a speaker , in white , addressed the . Deity , but the Bishop only the people . I then entered another court in Guild-Hall , which was crowded . I attempted a passage . The-bar-keeper prevented me with , "Are you an attorney , Sir ? " Something like one . " Come , Sir , I do not know them all . "
. Here Lord Mansfield sat as chief ; on his ri ght was Lord Rodney , as his friend . I could not forbear contemplating , that I had before me two of the principal characters of the age ; one stood at the head of the law , the other of arms ; they had ° both done signal service to their country ; that country had heaped favours upon both , and yet was debtor to both . The practice of the bar is not so much to open , as to complicate a case . He raises his reputation who says the smartest thinsrs , not VOL . vi . I i