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Time this cost. As to the time it has taken in writing
this may in one point of view be consider'd as
a long-considered well-weighed performance, in another as a
hasty one. The fundamental principles on
which it is grounded [and which are all along
appreciated] to] have been the work of years: but
upon the book itself has not cost more than matter
In the beginning of January December not a line of it was written. 1 Extracted from Princ. of Legisl. - Yet fuller 2 Part of it dictionary work. 3 Forced to make a new language.
It is not so long: it will be not so dear: it
has less [in it proportion] of that sort of matter, which
whether useful or no will cost trouble to understand
[it is a sort of a dove (if the reader
pleases) which I have let fly out of the ark
to bring tidings of the country] an earnest of reception.
I had no notion when I sat down of the conclusions what my
principles would lead me to. Three months ago The conclusions were many
of them as new to me as they are at present to the
public.
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Prefat. (Reward)
Common reasons for publishing - "fruits of leisure" - discharging the debt to profession I have known those met with lawyers who when writing in publishing
a book have [been honest enough to
made a merit of giving to the public what
they have called the fruits of their leisure:
[making over] ] giving conveying
bestowing to the public [always for valuable
consideration] that time which clients would not
buy. This by way of a stolen
the grave severer more proper obligation anterior proper and more important being
that of patronising espousing the interests of the
oppressor or oppressed which ever happens to
come first. The motive to this generosity
is commonly that of paying the debt which
I know not what lawyer in the excess overflowings of
his liberality has discovered every man owes
to his profession. What he owes or may fancy he owes to his profession a lawyer to do him justice is not very apt to forget: if the public were equally in his thoughts, the law would not be that boundless chaos of absurdities which it is at present. For my part were I to regard the debt
which I chose thought fit to contract with to my profession, it
would not be long a in paying: and were I to
choose look out for the party whom as far as industry and good
intentions go I would chose could wish make my debtor, it
should rather be the public, that universal creditor pursuivant
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