The custom of resorting to an oath in extreme cases, sanctified as it is by all religious antiquity, is apt (it must be confessed) to introduce into the laxer sort of minds the notion of two kinds of truththe one applicable to the solemn affairs of justice, and the other to the common proceedings of daily intercourse.

strain a flatter year, Through loaded vessels and a laxer tone? Crazy machines, to grind earth's wasted fruits!