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Are you to choose
out of all the people either those who are personal friends of your own, or
personal enemies to me, or men whom you consider inexorable, inhuman and
cruel? Are you, without my knowing, or suspecting, or dreaming of such a
step, to choose your own connections and those of your friends, personal
enemies to me and to my counsel? And are you to add to them those whom you
think by nature harsh and unfriendly to all the world? And are you then to
produce them all of a sudden, so that I see the bench of judges who are to
try me before I can form the least idea who they are going to be? And are
you to compel me to plead my cause, one in which all my fortunes are at
stake, before those men, without having the power of rejecting even five,
which was a privilege allowed to the last man who was put on
his trial by the decision of the judges themselves?
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