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Certainty Law X Fact.
What is plain to any one who chance to see it, is that all these Reverend persons
were altogether in a word: & thinking it necessary to say something & finding it easier to give way to the habit of decision they had
acquired, & to give their opinions such as they were, than to find out settle by an entire
and refined disquisition what the maxim distinction ( between the two words meaning which they for
when lightened by that philosophy
pronounced, they did what might be expected from their unholy by that Philos
which
Tell us wherein these matters differ if the one of which Jurists are to judge & not of th other — tell us how we may recognize them — You especially who write as volunteers treatises and professions dissertations the fruits of the leisure of the Cabinet. You who pronounce not of necessity for the sake of expediting this. — that cause: but who assume unhastened & uncalled for unasked the question consideration of a question in it's application to the main body of Jurisprudence.
Locke had not yet preached to one of that heading <add>master doctrine</add> and important lesson — or if he had preac
to the last of them, he had preached in vain — possessed, on the contrary, with their
maxim "omnis defractio in lege est," it has been the genius of the
profession to fly the task [of definition] — a maxim, for which in truth they are
not without a warrant, in the ill success of most attempts that have been made they have made that
way.
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