----kicking it _out_ of the great doors, instead of _in_----and with such fury in their looks, and such a degree of inveteracy in their manner of kicking it, as if the laws had been originally made for the peace and preservation of mankind: ----perhaps a more enormous mistake committed by them still------a litigated point fairly hung up; ------for instance, Whether _John o'Nokes_ his nose could stand in _Tom o'Stiles_ his face, without a trespass, or not--rashly determined by them in five-and-twenty minutes, which, with the cautious pros and cons required in so intricate a proceeding, might have taken up as many months----and if carried on upon a military plan, as your honours know an ACTION should be, with all the stratagems practicable therein, ------such as feints, ----forced marches, ----surprizes----ambuscades----mask-batteries, and a thousand other strokes of generalship, which consist in catching at all advantages on both sides------might reasonably have lasted them as many years, finding food and raiment all that term for a centumvirate of the profession.

kicking it out of the great doors, instead of in, almost as if the laws had been made for the peace of mankind; and moreover, settling a paltry dispute in five-and-twenty minutes, which might have taken up as many months - or have even lasted years, providing food all that time for a hundred lawyers.
