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PERSPICUITY. Mechanical helps to
Another mechanical help to perspicuity,to
but ought to be but one word of the Term in between day
which many legal writings are unprovided
with, are brea Breaks.
By Breaks every one understands to be meant
The person must question if that proposition is necessary
the discontinuance of the line of of letter press
in a certain stage of this discourse
for instance at the termination of the sentence
These one sees are no more than quick notices
given to the eye of the assistances
provided for the attention.
<p>Breaks in the printing suppose breaks
in the discourse
Early printers used no breaks<p>
<p>Lawyers make the page one word, as
they make the Term one day : as if they
pleased with usurping the same dominion
over space, which they pretend to over time.
Difficult to say in what cases there always, shall where the sentence is not compleat with itself : as where the Nominative case is a Pronoun
be a break — Perhaps there should not be ever
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