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Ask the people in Newgate—were Lawyer
is a Thief—Ask the people at Westminster
—were Thiefs & Lawyers—He must
be a Lawyer, and a shrewd one too, to understand
half of what has been written for
his instruction—And what effect a Law
is to have upon those who know nothing of
the maker, is what I am I must confess myself unable to conceive.
Let us hope for all things. It may perhaps
one day be discarded, in a place where the
discovery may be turned to profit that the owner of a Brass knocker has as as much
in as much
as an iron one
is as much worth protecting claim to an an adequate protection for
his property, as the owner of an wood one
Who knows?
It may not only be discovered that a brass
knocker is worth as much as an wood one but that twenty shillings worth of any one
thing is worth as 20 shillings worth of any others.
[That then may be things which do not absolutely
love their value by the driving of a
nail.
From the paragraphs one may now & then see in the
newspapers it looks as if some practitioners in this
way had collected enough of Law, to that
for the sake of it had given him an .
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