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In vain would it be said, this is
a wide fixed of inquiry thus marked out— too
wide to be entered upon— the probable profit, does
it not promise to be an equivalent for the trouble?
The answer is yes—an inquiry of
this sort is an indispensable condition on the
part of every one who, against the objections here
brought forward, shall have undertaken a defence.
Why? because the delay and the repence are
evils sensible and incontrovertible: to controvert
them, they require something at any rate on the
other side: evil, if not in a sensible shape, in
the shape of a tendency, at any rate.
Cohativen may have been the effects,
the source of its adoption may be looked for with
more probability in another circumstance, than
in the contemplation of these effects. This is authority
begotten prejudice.
Of all forms of Government known
at the time of the Establishment of this Constitution,
the English was the least bad, and the most landed.
Causes, obstacles, and uninfluencing circumstances
these are so many groups of circumstances, which,
in many instances, there has been no small
difficulty in distinguishing from each other: nor
is this among the instances, in which the degree
of difficulty has been least. In
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