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the shuttle — [Jurisprudence] [has already
produced what nobody can think less than
a sufficient supply of raw materials] unassisted
Jurisprudence has done her part —she she has
furnished Her assortment of raw materials: an assortment
which, to regard the quantity alone, nobody can well think
less than competent.
To speak the truth
I am not sorry the work is yet to do.
starve the loom
..... to a point & correlated by the stimulus of
scant grievances
some faint motions were made towards
a reformation in the days reign of James — more
serious thoughts seem to have been entertained
of it in the latter days of the Long Parliament under the auspices of the Protector
I am not sorry that they proved abortive
My presentations are not very strong The presumption could not be of any great strength in some
case of a code compiled under any such
times as when the existence of Witches was
believed, an article of faith or when death was thought a proper
punishment for an act of what is called incontinency fornication
Prefat.
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It was Philosophy right that Philosophy while yet a
child, should like other young artists children
be permitted to acquire dexterity by
practise, I make it's past experiments
by upon waste materials
exercise its unfledged ingenuity
When a tolerable definition of a Law was
yet to seek
It was still Half a Century before the after this that the
first Philosopher of the age could cast an
eye over the moral revenues, & suppose
that propositions in them were capable of
the same sort of demonstration as we
have that the 3 angles of a Triangle are
equal to 2 right ones.
before Luke was born.
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