ABSTRACT
[N]othing is comparable to the interior of a law-court … Talk of the theatre! it is but a very feeble and awkward imitation of a court of justice. There we have the thing itself. Tragedy, farce, melodrama, comedy, are all there, with the advantage too of much better actors, because they represent passions they really feel … [T]he counsel is then an actor, and in his finest part; and, if he acquit himself handsomely … whatever may be the fate of the cause, it is always a means of triumph for the lawyer.
