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Kinds of Stat:s.
into perplexities between what he sees and what
he reads. But abroad it would be otherwise the case is different.
A Foreigner⊞ ⊞ who knows no more of the subject but whether men gather from these commentaries, must be persons from is irremediable illusory delusive continually and irremediably deluded. would might must be deluded without remedy [be irrecoverably misled.]
These Commentaries have not been transcribed into
any foreign languages. Foreigners are [better
off] furnished. They have the De L'Olare's short
but excellent account of the British Laws, which
contain the best of what our Author has said,
with much that he should have said, but has
not. Even without this, Our Author is in no
danger of being put into seeing himself in a foreign dress. In
foreign countries⊞ ⊞ where for the most part the study of politics is carried on only by stealth it is only the speculative and
enlightened few that think of employing themselves
on an object so distinct and obscure to them as that of
our singular Legislation. These would altogether take them together
would scarce compose a complete a class of readers
competently numerous. But of a greater part
even of these, the curiosity would soon be damped
by their disgust they would feel at the prejudices
that infect it, and their despair of ever getting being able to
come at a true just view of the subjects it touches upon
through the false varnishes that bedaub it.
But to Foreigners a Parisian supposing a few copies to
have struggled into the hands of a Foreigner of as far as Paris
how that understands English to a Parisian
who reads English without having made that
Kinds of Stats. 10
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