ledging, he should long ago have abandoned his task in despair. The subject he has chosen is so extensive, the design so difficult of execution, and the opinions he has had to consider so conflicting, that he cannot review his labours without a consciousness that many imperfections may be detected in them, if subjected to keen and unfriendly scrutiny. Hostile criticism, however, he will not anticipate from the liberal members of a profession to which he shall ever esteem it a very high honour to belong. Should, on the contrary, his efforts to smooth the rugged access to legal science, and exhibit to the public a just and interesting delineation of the English Bar, prove successful-should this, his humble contribution to the stock of elementary professional literature, be accepted, the time and pains he has expended upon the ensuing pages will be richly recompensed.
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