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1828 Aug. 31
Blackstone

1
Ch. Introduction Beginning
continued (1 §.1 Use of this work

Enabling each one to obtain free of ulterior
expense, as much knowledge as is obtainable
of such part of the law by which his welfare is respected.
By this consideration will the plan and execution of this work guide.

Use of this work to
select parts from the overwhelming
mass of law, and
describe others.

At the very outset of this little work, it can
not but be of use, to state the use or uses⊞ ⊞ which, in so far as
we succeed, the reader
will be enabled to derive
from it which are it
is has been endeavoured to render it subservient: [the useful beneficial
effects of which with reference to the class of readers all along in view it has been endeavoured to be rendered productive:]
for, from the consideration of the class of readers in
question, and the nature of the services which we
it is our hope and endeavour and hope to render to them, will
be deduced the quantity of the matter letter press contained in it,
the plan of it, and th the infinite mass of the matter
with which the field of law is overwhelmed, the selection
of those some parts, the dismission dereliction of others, and the reason by
which the choice thus made has been will have been determined.

Blackstone in title
1. Because always associated
with law
2. Impossible to give more
than very small portion
of the whole & Blackstone
book does this
3. Not only the only one
but all others repulsive

At the head and front of this one work, the
name of Blackstone, it will be observed, is put: forming constituting part
and parcel of the title of it. This for several reasons Reasons for so doing, several,
and taking them together, conclusive.

1. In every mind, in which any such desire as that of a
general acquaintance with the state of the law in this our country
has place, the name of Blackstone is, as yet associated: the
scarcely without calling upon the name and idea of Blackstone
can the name of word law be presented to either to ears or eyes.

2. To present to view any more than a very comparatively small portion of the
immense and absolutely unmeasurable mass would be is in such a work
absolutely plainly impossible: what the towards enabling the
reader whose choice it is to form any more extensive or detailed
acquaintance with the subject all the utmost that can be done
and this is what may reasonably be expected to be done, is to
direct his enquiry towards some one book by from which in such his
desire more satisfaction is derivable than from any other single
book work that could be named: and this one book is Blackstone's,
Blackstones, continued
and amended as it has
been by the labours of
succeeding Editors.

3. Not only is that the
only Book to which for
this purpose reference could
thus be made, but of all the works that have been directed to this purpose it is that could be referred to, it is the least unpleasant and repulsive on this repulsive subject it is that which by universal acknowledgement, is the least repulsive!

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Date_1	1828-08-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9792
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