By law the king rules, by practice his cousin rules, and by opinion the king again rules.

Thus, is the strong point of practice balanced by law and opinion.

This it is that constitutes the harmony and perfection of the system.

No, it would never do to offend his majesty." Although I did not very well comprehend the Doctor's argument, yet, as I had often found in human society, theories political, moral, theological, and philosophical, that everybody had faith in, and which nobody understood, I thought discussion useless, and gave up the point by promising the Doctor to be at the academy in half an hour, which was the time named for our appearance.

Taking the necessary directions to find the place, we separated; he to hasten to make his preparations, and I to reach the tavern, in order to deposit our baggage, that no decency might be overlooked on an occasion so solemn..