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Rh 'Lawyers,' says Martial, 'are, with fees in view, Men that hire out their words and anger too,' And they, by Martin Luther were declared 'To be bad Christians,'—an opinion shared By many other persons in his day. And in our own—I need perhaps scarcely say: Their province is to deal with truth and lies; With precedents, and technicalities; With quibbles, and objections, and reports; With codes, and statutes in the various Courts; And many other things in litigation, Essential to complete their education.