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Much which would have interested us concerning prominent persons of this history, has of necessity been crushed out by the rapid movement of the events already chronicled.
A great trial, like a great flood, carries all before it. The whole landscape of one's ordinary life is for the time being submerged. Business may be urgent, pleasure enthralling, or the individual personality great, but the majesty of modern law rides roughshod over everything; business must stand aside, pleasure beckons in vain, and the eminent person gives his evidence by the side of the common man in a place where personal distinction, or anything else, counts little to barristers who are straining every nerve, not to see justice done, but to win a verdict for their own side.