But I never pass by without remembering my teacher.

I am prejudiced to [against] the very spot." "Is it not right to allow prejudice to have influence over our minds as far as this?
If any thing comes to our knowledge with which wrong _seems_ to be connected, and one in whom we have always felt confidence is engaged in it, is it not right to allow our prejudice in favor of this individual to have so much influence over us as to cause us to believe that all is really right, though every circumstance which has come to our knowledge is against such a conclusion?
I felt this influence, not many weeks since, in a very great degree." "The disposition to judge favorably of a fraud in such a case would not be prejudice; or, at least, if it were so, it would not be a sufficient ground to justify us in withholding blame.

Well-grounded confidence in such a person, if there was reason for it, ought to have such an effect, but not prejudice." The above may be considered as a fair specimen of the ordinary operation of such an exercise.

It is taken as an illustration, not by selection, from the large number of similar exercises which I have witnessed, but simply because it was an exercise occurring at the time when a description was to be written.

Besides the articles quoted above, there were thirty or forty others which were read and commented on.