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SECT. I. Of Laws in general.

just. Our Author saw them with a longing
eye. He determined to resolved upon making them his
own. He has furnished their splendor, he
has fritter'd down their strength, and he
has done it () a stampt over them with his name.

☞ For the Preface.

The Science of Law is a Science hitherto
cultivated with little success. It
still wants principles and a method. These
it was the professed design of our Commentator
to give it. Quod dedit principium
adveniens? says .....
I shall leave any body to answer it this question himself
who puts it into our Author's mouth. In
the mean time no mean affair is that
same "lucidus ordo" of on which an ancient
lays so much stress in one of this poems:†
tho' all the lucidus ordo there is in that same
piece poem is a an entire new discovery of a great genius
of our own, as the said great genius humbly
insists, without any abatement of his veneration
for the said poem. Our Author is not undeserving
of as able a Panegyrist. He
too is a geni devout worshipper at ancient shrines,
and as a reward of his devotion is not without some portion of that
spirit with by which those his Saints have been⊞ ⊞ distinguished. For as is
observed by a late witty (although but
any) adventurous writer, a
God or Goddess for method is more
than the ancients
were ever worth, tho' they had
ten of them for verse.+ + v. Preface to the Translation of
The WHITE BULL printed for
Bew. 1774. 12mo. There is another

printed for somebody else, without a Preface

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