If, however, even fairly well I might garner up and hand down some of the experiences of the generation of lawyers now passing, I would feel that I had, in some humble measure, discharged that obligation that Lord Bacon says, "every man owes to his profession.
Stevenson expresses his intention to document the experiences of a generation of lawyers as a professional obligation.
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My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.
In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform!
Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection even by men.