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silence: were they to answer, the closer and more explicit
the answer the wider open would be the eyes of
the Judge to the badness of their cause.
To the firm of Judge and Co. belong the said commissioners.
Accordingly, in the application made by them to
divers persons for opinions under the name of evidence, say
Opinion evidence they have omitted me. They constitute
a board — In its original physical sense a Board
means a table. To every one who chooses, it officiates as
a screen. Addressing myself to them, as well might
I address myself to this table at which they sit: as
soon from that Table should I receive an answer as
from them.
From Mr. Humphreys's second edition of his valuable
work no man could suspect that any such man as
myself had ever been in existence. This silence speaks
volumes. His merits, his hapless situation, and the
state of his health, concur in rendering him on my part
an object of the sincerest sympathy: the policy he himself
there maintained was, (it is a pleasure to me to believe) the
forced result of the policy he saw maintained by all around.
1. From your Real Property Commissioners I have
received a copy of the Queries they have circulated. It is
come tardily and perhaps reluctantly: but, at any rate,
Identifier: | JB/011/334/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
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