Owen Feltham, in his Resolves,
well says, that "arrogance is a weed that ever grows upon a
dunghill."{4} The contrast between Scarlett and his great opponent, Mr.
Serjeant Copley,
3 Generally speaking, the management of two-thirds of the
business of the court is entrusted to _four silk-gowns_, and
about twice as many _worsted_ robes behind the bar.
4 An Impromptu written in the Court of King's Bench during a
recent trial for libel.
The Learned Pig.
"My learned Friend," the showman cries;
The pig assents--the showman lies;
So counsel oft address a brother
In flattering lie to one another;
Calling their friend some legal varlet,
Who lies, and bullies, till he's Scarlett.
~360~~the present Attorney-General, is a strong proof of the truth of
this quotation. To a systematic and profound knowledge of the law,
this gentleman unites a mind richly stored with all the advantages of a
liberal education and extensive reading, not merely confined to the
dry pursuit in which he is engaged, but branching forth into the most
luxuriant and highly-cultivated fields of science and the arts. On this
account, he shines with peculiar brightness at _Nisi Prius_; and is as
much above the former in the powers of his mind and splendour of
his oratory, as he is superior to the presumptuousness of Scarlett's
vulgarity.
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