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Inserenda. Law of Nature.

NOTE. [a]

all, and many of his jurisprudential ones could
not but have derived great benefit from this change
of air. A certain author was taking the advice
of a friend what to do about his book – "By all
"means", said the friend, "translate turn it into verse".
"Into verse? why so?" says the Author. "Why, because,
"then it will be verse," says the friend, "and now
"is it's nothing.⊞ ⊞ Let me cite a
precedent. We have
Coke's Reports in
verse. Why should
not the same honour
be paid to Blackstone's
Commentaries.
Let me at least recommend
this pious
office to some one or
other of the "long and
illustrious train"+ of his
admiring pupils.
+ See our Author's discourse on the Study of the Laws.

Here (Our Author seems to have looked upon) One would think The precision
accuracy which is to instruct, seems to have been was
looked upon by our Author as incompatible with
the ornaments which are to allure: or what is more else
probable, neither daring nor knowing how to
possess himself of the former, he turned aside after
the latter. This is the most probable.⊞ ⊞ The flaccid fopperies
of Poetry and
Rhetoric might flourish
in the dank atmosphere
his commentaries first
drew. The flaccid Poetry
may might flourish in the air he drew. Those who
care not judge, may venture to imagine. But
the firm beauties of precision love a purer air. They grow not (are not the growth) of
those torpid and pestilential regions, where the
grim gorgon spectre of superstition sits centinel over
the foundations of moral science. Nor is it possible
that a man ever Vain are his hopes who thinks to learn to see clearly in the
gloomy circle, in which the first vow to he makes at
entering is to shut his eyes.

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