: Essays or discourses vol. 2 (of 4) by Feijoo Benito Jer Nimo Brett John Translator - Essays

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OF THE SECOND VOLUME

THE BALANCE OF ASTREA; OR, UPRIGHT ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. Page 1

ON THE IMPUNITY OF LYING. p. 41

ON THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY, AND NATIONAL PREJUDICE OR PREPOSSESSION. p. 66

ON TRUE AND FALSE URBANITY. p. 109

A DEFENCE OR VINDICATION OF THE WOMEN. p. 189

ON CHURCH MUSIC. p. 313

THE WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF MUSIC, AND A COMPARISON OF THE ANTIENT WITH THE MODERN. p. 357

BALANCE OF ASTREA;

Upright Administration of Justice:

In a LETTER from an OLD JUDGE, to his SON who was newly raised to the Bench.

XL. Let us now consider, that the falsehoods and deceits, with which tribunals are environed, make the investigation of truth so difficult, that in some causes it is come at late, and in others never. This is a most pernicious injury to the public, for the tediousness and difficulty of the verification, gives breathing-time for the ill intentioned, to devise and concert all sorts of wickedness. What remedy then can you apply to this evil, but that of punishing rigorously every kind of judicial deceit? The most pernicious loss or disadvantage to a commonwealth, does not consist so much in there being a great number of members in it who do not fear God, as it does in those members who do not fear God, not fearing the magistrate neither.

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