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MEMOIRS OF ABERNETHY.

CHAPTER I.

“ Opinionum commenta delet dies, nature judicia confirmat.”—cicERo.

“Time, which obliterates the fictions of opinion, confirms the decisions of nature.”

Wuoever has wandered to the south side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, will have found himself in one of the “ solitudes of London ;” one of those places, which, interspersed here and there amidst the busy current that rushes along every street and alley, seems quite out of the human- life-tide, and furnishes a screnc spot, a dead calm, in the midst of turault and agitation. Fre a lawyer may con over a “ glorious uncer-

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