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1828 Aug. 30
Blackstone

3
Ch. 1
3 §.1. Introduction
Blackstone

Blackstone most familiar
of writers on this subject —
only one who attempts
to elucidate it —
or justify its arrangements
to dispose persons to be
satisfied with its hard burthens
by contemplating its benefits.

Of all the writers on this subject, Blackstone is the only one
which on this occasion could have been chosen for this purpose.
He is the writer of whom of all writers on the subject the name
is most familiar to the great bulk of readers: the man, from
whom they every body expects to obtain with the least trouble, and in the
most pleasant manner, what such paper of instruction he is feels disposed to employ
in paying the acquisito for such portion of his time, as for this purpose he
is able and feels disposed, to spare: the only one by whom
any thing like an attempt is made to explain elucidate re the subject
and so render it in any degree an object of approbation and
attachment to his readers: to justify the arrangement in question
in their eyes, and dispose them to acquiesce with satisfaction
in the burthens which they can not but see and feel enforced on
them by it, by the contemplation of the benefits which have for their
burthen his his endeavours are employed in persuading them to believe be persuaded
the that those benefits could ever be conferred on them, could ever be enjoyed by them: benefits which throughout they are likewise called you
by him to believe, are all along much superior to the burthens

The difference between
what he pretends it to be
from what it is, evil be
Shewn those who trust
him liable to suffer from
deception, a warning of it
it's snares.

In bringing to view those facts, by the contemplation consideration of which
the our reader will see how far so many particulars in which that which the law is pretended
to be is by Blackstone and his de lawyers in general and other pretended to
be different from what it really is and as well as from what it ought
to be, in consequence and by means of which failure those who trust
to the account given of it by those learned persons, are liable
on so many occasions, to be deceived, and rendered to an
unlimited extent sufferer, we shall watch every occasion
on which it may be in our power to give our readers warning
of the snares into which they are then in danger of falling,
together with such advice as may have for its effect, in propriety as it is profited by the
reducing to its smallest dimensions the quantity of the evil sufferance
to which by Law as it is, they are have at every step they take
in this thorny and cloudy regime, so unhappily exposed.

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Date_1	1828-08-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9791
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