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1822 Feb. 4
Codification Offer
13. But the chain should be left unfettered. Be the literary
draught composition ever so well penned, it could not absolutely follow
fitness for the office would not, on the part of the author be a
necessary consequence.⊞ Various are the points
of appropriate aptitude
in which
relation had to the
business of this office,
he might still be deficient: Exemplication
be seen above. Probity might be deficient, or Unapt he might in respect of appropriate moral aptitude, viz.
probity, diligence or promptitude or quickness of dispatch or
or good purpose or the owner of the its business to be
transacted the presence of the several proposed successive
thoughts as they come upon the .
13. After the completion of the Code, it would probably might be not improbably be a considerable
time if at before the need of the some of the offer thus prescribed
would show manifest itself.
From page 9.
12. Be the number of those patterns ever so considerable the
expence of publication might should be printing and publishing should
be defrayed by to public government – Were it not for this, the expence
expence might be a bar to the work of the least affluent competitors:
that is and thereby to those in whom as such the habit of intellectual
labour, and thence the promise of intellectual and even appropriate moral aptitude is fairest.
15 13. The produce of the sale might either be applied an alteration
of the expence, or be given to the respective authors.
To this expence So long The expence on this score neither promises nor
threatens to be very considerable. Be it what it may, so long
as in the whole of the Official Establishment so much as a
single Sinecure, a useless or needless, or overpaid Office presents is to be
found itself, to this expence no objection can with any
consistency be made.
True it is that in regard to offices belonging to the Judicial
Department the same of observation apples to those ever indispensable offices, as that which has
just be applied to the proposed future contingent Office
of Conservator of the Laws. Of By no degree of aptitude, be it
ever so high, on the part of any such legislative draught
will can any such absolutely conclusive evidence be given of aptitude on the
part of the author, with relation to any of those certainly be constantly indispensable offices,
the most in addition to the elements of aptitude instanced in that case fluency in speech.
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