Crossword-Solution: PLEADERS 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

About the ninth hour (three o'clock) the tide of business again returns, and flows incessantly till after sunset, when the signal of the royal supper dismisses the weary crowd of suppliants and pleaders.

Pleaders and advocates are sometimes driven into it, because to use vigorous, clean, crisp English in addressing an ordinary jury or committee is like flourishing a sword in a drawing-room: it will lose the case.

The satirist [Persius] exclaims, “Mille hominum species et mentis discolor usus; Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.” “Nature is ever various in her name; Each has a different will, and few the same.” The comic poet also says, “_Quot capita tot sententiæ_, _suus cuique mos est_.” “As many men, so many minds, each has his way.” Young soldiers exult in war, and pleaders delight in the gown; others aspire after riches, and think them the supreme good.

Where gluttony and intemperance prevail the town quickly fills with doctors and pleaders; and law and medicine give themselves airs as soon as the freemen of a State take an interest in them.

The pleaders, a sufficiently vilified body, gratuitously defend the cases of the indigent, while the notaries have not as yet agreed to charge nothing for the marriage-contract of the poor.