They have always knowledge, often eloquence.
Marchetti, Rossi, and Lunati might no doubt have written good sermons, if they had not preferred doing something else.
Between ourselves, I think the prelates affect to despise them, in order that they may not have to fear them.

They have condemned some of them to exile, others to silence and want.

Hear what Cardinal Antonelli said to M.de Gramont:-- "The advocates used to be one of our sores; we are beginning to be cured of it.

If we could but get rid of the clerks in the offices, all would go well." Let us hope that, among modern inventions, a bureaucratic machine may be made by which the labour of men in offices may be superseded.
The Roman princes affect to regard the middle class with contempt.

The advocate who pleads their causes, and generally gains them, belongs to the middle class.