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Common Law. Reports and Treatises
From p.1. NOTE
NOTE
[a] In Reports, it is true there is apt to be more shew of argumentation
than in Treatises: but this argumentation
is not that of the Author of the Book: it is the argumentation
only of the Pleaders and Judges whose discourses
he relates. In Treatises it is the Author himself
who argues.
made public. ones, universally, as they ought to be, made public.
To p.8.
NOTE [b]
From p.12
[b] Our Author, himself lay him in his coffin, ought after a certain
number of years, in the natural course of things, to commence Sage. But alas! who
knows but, by that period, the spirit of canonization
may be extinct. It already is burns visibly weaker than it
has done. The effect of this The effect of this comment if it has any,
will not be to encrease the flame. In the space
of an odd century or two, a dead lawyer may be
no more than an ordinary man.
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