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Common Law. Judicial Decisions.
☞ To come in after Inserenda p.2. No 2.
I have not that we owe any such deference to former times.
I hear not that we owe any deference to former times
that we owe not to our own. I know not that we
owe them any such deference as to suppose a
reason for that what [for which] they did, when none is visible. Sure
I am that it is unnecessary to have recourse to any
such deference to justify the adherence to that this rule.
Whether it never had a reason, or whether having
once had a reason, that deference reason is now
ceased makes no difference with I respect to the
against that deference that is done in favour of the rules from a
deference to former times reason we now have for adhering to it. This reason, which may be characterized expressed
by one word, stability, our Author had already given
us but the page before, tho' now 'as if it had been
forgotten, at least] as if it never made any impression
on him, or as if the impression it so weak an one
as to have been obliterated already, its
abandoned, as it seems, for these false and trivial
ones.⊞ ⊞ I We need say no more about it here, having had occasion to display the nature and importance of it in a the preceding chapter.
But let us p come proceed to the example. I am always glad rejoice
NOTE
said thus so much as the sentence amounts to without it, he
seems to have been afraid of having what he has said something: and
to have put in this word, in order to be able, in case of being
hard pushed, to reduce the something he before had
said into nothing. 'Tis in the same strain of policy that
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