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1821 April 20

Not used by me. R. Doane Apr.l 1840

A summary view or outline of a work may be taken and stretched out
given either before or after completion: in the former first case it is a view
by anticipation; in the latter case an abridgement.

In comparison of the abridgement, great are the disadvantages
under which a view by anticipation, has to labour: clearness, correctrrectness,
completeness, conciseness — on all these essential
points, it cannot but be to an indefinite degree inferior and deficient.

If such be the disadvantage in the case of a work on any
ordinary subject, how much greater it cannot but be in the case
of a work without example on a subject of a nature at once so
extensive and so important may be left to imagination to conceive.

Then why set about to compose it and if composed why
publish it?

Answer. The greater the extent and difficulty of the work at
large the greater the uncertainty whether, especially at his
time of life, the author, would be able to render it in his
own eyes, with reference to the design by which he was
guided in the course of it, any thing like complete. In any
part of that course, supposing him stopt by death and infirmity,
but for such all-comprehensive howsoever imperfect
sketch the design would remain uncompleted, the remainder
unconjecturable.

Identifier: | JB/036/001/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	001	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	"not used by me. r. doane apl 1840"	ID Number	10925
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