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Decr 1805
Evidence
Take any case that has been provided for in both modes
and observe the difference in the mode of provision made for it.
Take for example a common case of debt: debt in the sum of
money lent, work and labour done, or goods sold and delivered
value it in the first place at 41s, in the next place at 39s.
Take it first place to the regular courts and see there the
41s recovered or not recovered at the expence of £70 on both
sides: the plaintiff same number of pounds out of pocket after
pocketing his 41s: the 41s recovered at the end 39s recovered
at an expence of less than 7s expence on both sides as
before, the 41 recovered at the expence of £70 recovered at
the end of a ; the 39s recovered at the expence of
less than 7s recovered in less than a quarter of an hour.
The 41s contended for in a language in comparison of which
the language of alchemists, astrologers and school-logicians
is clear, the language of and innocent: the
39s contended for on the grounds of common honesty and the
language of common sense.
Think then that it is only as a few privileged
places in which justice, justice upon that contracted
scale is has been rendered possible that the 39s if sued for at
all escapes being sued for in the same mode as the 41s.
Think then that every thing that is as desirable in life, that
all those things which when annexed to other could if not
and prostituted to the of and
virtue, think that riches, ,
of the sovereignty are reserved for those who in justice
or what is called they are pleased to call and utter to justice is administered in the manner in
which it is administered in the case of the debt of the 41s,
while
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