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NOTORIETY MISCELL. Simplificat.n VOLUME.

He will learn to his concern, that the popular complaints on this head have bet too solid a foundation; & that Legislators, content to pay themselves with the
standing apology, current reason aphorism that complicated Laws are a necessary part of the purchase as well as one
cause of Liberty, have hitherto paid made the simplication of them as part of their concern scarce at all
the object of their attention: that mistaking Voluminousness for precision, and imagining
that where there was most words, there must be most security, they have reposed given
themselves with too much tranquillity in ..... too much ruin to the luxuriance of
He will learn however But to his satisfaction, that it is not a task which the nature of things has made
impracticable.

The Chaotic immensity of the Law is not a curse entailed on us for ever — God has been more
merciful to us than they are willing to imagine: he has not given us the evil without the means of
cure.

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Materials good
Diamonds many of them of the first water
they require only (but this they do require)
to be cleansed from external impurities,
and to be new set.

Nothing can contribute more than the an identity
of Laws the to the putting an end to those
jealousies between two provinces of the
same nation which ill-intentioned or
angry men inflame, but which good
men & moderate men wish to see extinct
for ever.

It is a much less invidious way of proceeding
to when the two System in any respect
are altered jointly alterd to a common standard,
than when one is made in all
points the standard to the other.

In such a business the prejudices of the
people may be expected to mingle
strongly warmly: then particularly those of the people
of that division which is the weakest and
least apt to be consider'd: nothing can contribute

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Public confounded with Private Acts.
There is not a Road Turnpike nor a Navigation
Act but what is declared to be a Public
Act: and all Judges &c are directed
to take notice of it accordingly.
It would be well when they are Legislature is about
it, would it generously be pleased to
give them a memory to contain them
all.

to reconcile them to such a scheme
more than seeing the other making advance
as it were to meet them.

It will be difficult to say why the prejudices
of one part should be treated
with exclusive deference. If any
condescension is due to those of the one
more than to those of the other, it is to
the weakest, and that which from its relative force has to appearance
most reason to apprehend
it's being oppressed.

COMPOSITION. Whole together. Prelude Voluminous [BR][ ] Consolatoria -ness Assurances that it is not irremediable. MISC. Diamonds Probate Acts jumbled with Public — Scotland.

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