ABSTRACT
The reverend Doctor, who was equally great in jurisprudence, as in poetry and divinity, received a summons in the morning, to attend a meeting of the quorum, 30 to determine on an offence committed against the / excise laws. He found the bench full, and only waiting for his appearance to open the business. For the Doctor was too much of a great man, ever to be punctual to his time, or not to affect the empty importance of being much employed on things of consequence by making those wait for him who were inclined to pay him that compliment; being no exception to the general rule, that every man who is servile in adulation to his superiors, will be exactly in the same proportion, insolently arrogant to those who are, or whom he fancies, are his inferiors.
