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Sect. Interpretation. 40

And what, in short, is it that the example has to
do with either of them? All these questions we may put if as long as we think proper: but no answer shall
we get to any of them from our Author.

[I said that] this rule, I said, might change exam—
ples with the next to which we are coming presently
It may also [with equal property] with the 1 " of the
1st groupe of rules reporting that "words are generally to be under—
stood" according to their "general and popular use". The
example there is, a law forbidding a Layman
to lay hands on a Priest. The example here is, a a
law forbidding any man to draw blood in the streets.
But Both ☞ in their which import are enumerate to the end. The port of them is ☞ law
too narrow: the § , is too wide.

I have said what the rule does not tell us: neither
by itself: nor by the example. We must let us consider a
moment what it does tell us. It tells us that if
words here have no sense, we must deviate a little from
the sense they have. The same is to be done also
where the sense they have is an abroad one. I
presume therefore we must deviate here a little from
the sense of this our author, [words] in order to make
any thing out of them it. This is only to be done however
when the sense is "author have" at all or "very ab"—
sard": and then we must "deviate" only "a little."
admittedly precise for determining the occasion and quest—
tion of ! we are to deviate, we
are to run away somehow I or other from the sense
but where we are to run to, or what us to guide us in

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