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13
Inserenda. Unwritten
One might as well expect the fire of Poetry
is as congenial to the chime of Tornos, and dwell there
to blaze at Tornos, as to see an account accurate
and instructive draught of of a branch of moral Science, an account
of the Principles of Law from that could
bear examination the test of from a subscribing
University, hatched proved produced under the influence
of a subscribing University.
The hand of stupidity in force authority that grasps gropes
the infant from, ...
The grope of Subscription
Wipes the bud of genius
In this notion of law how it so persevering
that we might be seriously alarmed, had we
not that to as which
is one of the distinguishing properties of
Men writing in this strain would be too desirous
As the in a commonwealth had not [if we
had not their inconsistence as a palliative to] the
poison of their fanaticism now and then a palliative
in their inconsistencies.
That men should have lived thus long without
ever having yet asked themselves a question
thus obvious and thus interesting, may well be
a matter of surprize. But the light of philosophy
has but just begun to dawn upon the
choice of Law.
It is the endeavour, for it is become
the interest of our author to put it out.⊞ ⊞ He has kept his back to it: It is offensive
in his eyes: and It always will be offensive in the eyes of those whose
turned as his is: unrepugnant victims of forced professions
which to escape save the reproach of mental servitude they wish
to have thought and for security if possible to make
secure.
Unwritten 13
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