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14 Feby 1809
As with one of those masters of the everything-is-in-
it should be school – the Reverend Judge the head
master the reverend divine the under master –
so it is seems to be with the other. Both works having been
originally read – read over and over again, in the form
of lectures to admiring and unscrutinizing students,
in each of them, each paragraph, so far as concerns
the persuasive quality of harmony, appears to have been
diligently considered by itself, no two paragraphs compared
with one another. The same practice, according
to the exigency of the moment is that is of the paragraph accordingly becomes
at command either flagitious, indifferrent, incritorious.
After mumbling tossing and trembling over those his two "peculiarities" till he
had reduced to insipidity inanity the conception which he
had been occupied in presenting of their respective natures and
tendencies – viz. the judicial power of the House of Lords
the true use or rather necessity of which appears never to have been visible
to him, and the compound of torture and perjury
infused into Jury trial – "These however" (concludes he
II. 267 a few pages afterwards lower –) "These, if even if real,
"are minute imperfections."
Identifier: | JB/035/306/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
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