I think the learned gentleman was very wise in not doing so.

For I have thought often, in the course of my practice in law, that it was not very advisable to raise a spirit that one could not conveniently lay again.

Now who made this discovery?
And would it not be proper?
I am sure it would.

And would it not be manly?
I am sure it would.

Would not my learned friend and his coadjutor have acted a more noble part, if they had stood up and said that this invention was not Goodyear's, but it was an invention of such and such a man, in this or that country?
On the contrary they do not meet Goodyear's claim by setting up a distinct claim of anybody else.