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Common Law. Division of it into Customs and Maxims.

devotion to the King. The King acted for himself, they
for the King, the great Barons for themselves, the
rest of the nation was nothing. Made and unmade
by him, they were no longer suffer'd than they would
busy themselves in rearing the fabric of her power.
They slaved drudged, and in the mean time as is natural to
men thus employ'd, were ever on their knees, before
the workmanship of their own hands. In this state of Thus circumstanced
the profession in what other sense could they have
advanced the maxim, than the first. It was well
if they stopped there, and did not push on to the
third. The substance of the maxim in this 1st sense, recommended
it to their affections corrupted by servility: the par quaint and paradoxical
turn of the expression recommended it to understandings
vitiated with pedantry. The conciseness of it was subservant
to remembrance.

It was however ambiguous: this was not the only sense
the phrase might with decent semblance be made to bear. In preceding reigns,
perhaps a few scatter'd individuals, in the reign of James a
connected body in the profession began to patronize
the interests of the people. They These saw and had hold of the ambiguity
of this important maxim, admitted the 1st sense, but
grafted on it the second. Their opponents in the rage
of controversy, strove every now and then to fix fasten on it
the second third. That third has fallen for ever to
the governed into the pit of infamy. The two first have taken root and
flourish.

Let us now in this example, observe the nature of a
maxim, and putting imagining ourselves in the place of the inventors,
a observe by what process it was formed.

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