Then I told him that the office of judge was by no means a sinecure, for that a judge worked as hard as any man in the country.
He has to work at very difficult questions of law, which are brought before him continually, giving him great anxiety; and sometimes the lives of his fellow-creatures are placed in his hands, and are dependent very much upon the manner in which he places the facts before the jury.
That is a matter of no little anxiety, I can assure you.

Let any man think as he will, there is no man who has been through the ordeal for the length of time that I have, but must feel conscious of the importance and gravity of the duty which is cast upon a judge."] [Footnote 138: Lord Stanley's Address to the Students of Glasgow University, on his installation as Lord Rector, 1869.] [Footnote 139: Writing to an abbot at Nuremberg, who had sent him a store of turning-tools, Luther said: "I have made considerable progress in clockmaking, and I am very much delighted at it, for these drunken Saxons need to be constantly reminded of what the real time is; not that they themselves care much about it, for as long as their glasses are kept filled, they trouble themselves very little as to whether clocks, or clockmakers, or the time itself, go right."-- Michelet's LUTHER [13Bogue Ed.], p.

200.] [Footnote 1310: "Life of Perthes," ii.

20.] [Footnote 1311: Lockhart's 'Life of Scott' [138vo.

Ed.], p.