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u HPAKE a judgment against him , and execute it immediately , " ¦ " - said the lawyer . The man he addressed was a Christian—The lawyer had only his name to tell he was one . " It will ruin " him , if I'follow 3 ? our advice , " said the Client , who was a man of compassion— " If you consult the interest of another more than " you do jrour own , " interrupted the Lawyer , " why did you send
" for me ?"—I could hear no more—but I hope the man of compassion did not suffer benevolence to be rooted from the breastwhere it seemed to bud . We know that the law is good—if a man use it lawfully—But we should ever deal with others as we would wish others to deal with us . —And would the Lawyer like that any man should take a judgment against him and execute it immediately ?—No—Judgment be-Jongeth only to one—and although we . are all debtors to him , he would readily give us all liberty and happiness for ever .
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WHAT a croud !—I passed through it with difficulty—A poor wretch was going to prison for debt—He lifted up his stream- ? ing eyes to heaven , as if supplicating for liberty—my heart felt his anguish . —I enquired how much he owed his merciless creditor" Ten pounds , besides charges . " " Good heaven 1—to be deprived " of liberty for ten pounds !"—The smallness of the sum gave me deli
ght—I stept up to him—and giving him all the money I had in my pocket—bade him purchase his liberty , and never despair , though surrounded with distress . —He would have knelt in the dirt to thank me , but I prevented him . —The man was poor , but honest —He was an husband and . a father—he had seen better days . —The mob shouted for joy---aud I left him with greater satisfaction in
my heart than a Nobleman feels on entering the drawing-room in a birth-night suit . " Compassion , " said I , "has this day drawn from my purse more " than I could afford— -But I will wear this old coat and hat twelvefC months longer than I intended , and that will almost make things " even—Mcoat is old and rusty ' tis true—but—the debtor is
y , " free . " The world began to be wrapt in darkness—Ni g ht had , unheeded , stolen upon me , and the busy scene was going to be buried in oblivion , "•' ,
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A Fragment.
A FRAGMENT .
u HPAKE a judgment against him , and execute it immediately , " ¦ " - said the lawyer . The man he addressed was a Christian—The lawyer had only his name to tell he was one . " It will ruin " him , if I'follow 3 ? our advice , " said the Client , who was a man of compassion— " If you consult the interest of another more than " you do jrour own , " interrupted the Lawyer , " why did you send
" for me ?"—I could hear no more—but I hope the man of compassion did not suffer benevolence to be rooted from the breastwhere it seemed to bud . We know that the law is good—if a man use it lawfully—But we should ever deal with others as we would wish others to deal with us . —And would the Lawyer like that any man should take a judgment against him and execute it immediately ?—No—Judgment be-Jongeth only to one—and although we . are all debtors to him , he would readily give us all liberty and happiness for ever .
Another.
ANOTHER .
WHAT a croud !—I passed through it with difficulty—A poor wretch was going to prison for debt—He lifted up his stream- ? ing eyes to heaven , as if supplicating for liberty—my heart felt his anguish . —I enquired how much he owed his merciless creditor" Ten pounds , besides charges . " " Good heaven 1—to be deprived " of liberty for ten pounds !"—The smallness of the sum gave me deli
ght—I stept up to him—and giving him all the money I had in my pocket—bade him purchase his liberty , and never despair , though surrounded with distress . —He would have knelt in the dirt to thank me , but I prevented him . —The man was poor , but honest —He was an husband and . a father—he had seen better days . —The mob shouted for joy---aud I left him with greater satisfaction in
my heart than a Nobleman feels on entering the drawing-room in a birth-night suit . " Compassion , " said I , "has this day drawn from my purse more " than I could afford— -But I will wear this old coat and hat twelvefC months longer than I intended , and that will almost make things " even—Mcoat is old and rusty ' tis true—but—the debtor is
y , " free . " The world began to be wrapt in darkness—Ni g ht had , unheeded , stolen upon me , and the busy scene was going to be buried in oblivion , "•' ,