Then, his mind would be biased: no impartiality from him! Or your testy accused might object to another, because of his tomahawk nose, or a cruel squint of the eye.
"Of all follies the most foolish! Know ye from me, that true peers render not true verdicts.

Jiromo was a rebel.

Had I tried him by his peers, I had tried him by rebels; and the rebel had rebelled to some purpose.
"Away! As unerring justice dwells in a unity, and as one judge will at last judge the world beyond all appeal; so--though often here below justice be hard to attain--does man come nearest the mark, when he imitates that model divine.

Hence, one judge is better than twelve." "And as Justice, in ideal, is ever painted high lifted above the crowd; so, from the exaltation of his rank, an honest king is the best of those unical judges, which individually are better than twelve.

And therefore am I, King Media, the best judge in this land." "Subjects! so long as I live, I will rule you and judge you alone.
And though you here kneeled before me till you grew into the ground, and there took root, no yea to your petition will you get from this throne.