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Kinds of Stat: Inserenda
NOTE
It is curious to observe the manner in which the
two qualities of discernment I know not which most to admire and integrity (I am
speaker of the integrity of the historian) display
themselves in our Author: His Integrity, in representing
things, as I have observed not as they are
but as certain persons may be supposed to wish to
have them thought to be: His discernment, where
such wishes stand neater, by representing things them
[again] still not as they are, but are said to be.
I think I can tell the reader student, and it will be the clue may be a useful one to
guide induct him through the labyrinth of these Commentaries, the rules
by which our Author governs himself by in measuring
out his favour. It is that of Sir Lake Limp
and the Comedy; the rank and power of the person [whose
affairs interests are upon the carpet] who is concerned.
Accordingly the business of Legislation is here represented
as in being conducted by the King, the other
branches of the Legislature having no more concern
in the matter than to submitt their opinion
and if they think proper (but this only by inference) oppose their
negative.
At At home, the poison of these false and personal representations
are of little has its validation corrective prejudice: except to the It is only of thus much prejudice to
of the Student that it by indeed initiates him in the habit and
covering familiarizing him to the spectacle of sophistication: by
confounding his notions conceptions,
and perplexing throwing him
into
Kinds of Stat: (9)
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