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after all is not compleat (thus different are
for the purpose of prolixity and precision) the Legislator
was resolved to be too hard for the Judge,
as the Judge had been too cunning for him
before.

What would give me† † (I must confess) a certain satisfaction; pleasure is to take both
these Statutes‡ ‡ (to which if might be added our Authors account of thethat the only one we have of exposition the exposition of the first of them,) and together with our Author's account⊞ ⊞ tho' it is the only one we have of the
exposition of the first of them; and throw them
into the fire: after which some such short sentences
as these two might serve to express the sense of them.

To steal, or kill with intent to steal the whole
or any part of an Ox or a Sheep shall be Felony
without benefit of Clergy.

By "Ox" and "Sheep" are meant any animal of
the respective species: however differenced by age
sex or other circumstance.

The number of words In these the two sentences here proposed then was is 46
words: in the two correspondent sentences in the
Statute Book there was it is 628: The first more than
thirteen times that of the second. And now (since something of boldness is necessary
to him that would oppose so inveterate abuses so inveterate:) I
here throw down my gauntlet: and I challenge any lover
of tautology to shew me in the latter any thing in the former that can contribute to answer the purpose of it,
and that is not in the latter former.

From this short specimen it may be judged

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