Charles Macklin. 1690-1797.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
Love à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Every tub must stand upon its bottom.[350:3]
The Man of the World. Act i. Sc. 2.
Footnotes
[350:3] See Bunyan, page 265.
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