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I am sure that he would have said all that in those
circumstances. For it is, I believe, the cue for the defendant, the man who has
done a wrong, to try and shuffle out of the method actually adopted to bring him
to punishment and to say that a different method should have been employed; but
it is the duty of sensible jurymen to ignore such evasions and to chastise
anyone whom they convict of an outrage.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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