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Sect. Interpretation. 30
"when the Law of England declares murder to be'
"felony without benefit of clergy, we must re—
"sort to the same Law of England to harm
"what the benefit of Clergy is: and when the com—
"mon. Law" (what sort of a law have we got now?) of England censures simoniacal con—
"tracts", (that branch of the Law of England, he might
have said, called the Common Law.) "censures
"simonducal contracts, it affords great light to the
"subject to consider what the canon law of England,
or what besides.") "Which the canon Law," however,
concludes he, "has adjudged to be simony."
For the purpose of the complication, it may
be sufficient to understand, that the common law
is a one sort of law that is suffered to speak
Note
Precision (if we may be allowed to make a Grace, or a Virtue
of her) is in general no great favourite of our Authors;
and it happens whimsically enough that which
in a sudden fit of gallantry, he is throwing
his arms about to catch her, he shambles
into ambiguity and contradiction. This cause
of ducking his sentence with the word "same," in
which there was no more propriety than use, see—
ing that he was neither about envy among nor
special—pleading. That gave it this unearth ef—
fect was the our which of subject a permit of ambiguity into
language labours under, which our Author wan—
affectory precision, he
humble falls into upon control
section.
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