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From seeing the effect which the Laws actually have, we
can have no idea of what they might have.
The Law is a vast Battery, of which the greatest
part of the Balls are shot in spent vain, for want of being
directed levelled to the object!+
+ want of a due level
When Law was in it's infancy being simple tho'
inadequate, it had more effect in proportion than now
because it had it's amm whole effect.
That it's effect [is no greater than we see it] comes
comes as so far short as it does of attainable it's maximum perfection, is
owing in a great degree to this to this, that of our care to give it direction.+ + had not kept pace with our efforts to give it force
This is so true, that one might perhaps assert without
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exaggeration, that upon comparing the number of Laws —
with the number of persons respectively apprized of them
not one fourth part of the force is applied that's raised.
Happily however so it is, that the this business of direction
or application tho' not of the least necessity, is, by a great
deal of the least difficulty. — It wants in a manner —
but to be seriously resolved upon [in earnest] willed.
As to the matter of fact, when we have the testimony
of the most experienced Magistrate in this Kingdom
hesitates not one may stand excused from to declare, as the result of his experience
that the Penal Laws "are oft'ner offended against from
Promulgation. Want of — Fielding
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ignorance than obstinacy" the necessity may surely be deemed to be superseded of searching for any further testimony. Sr John Fieldings Extracts from the Penal Laws — Introd. p. 2 & v. p. 11 @ 62 @ 81. of the work itself. v. also p. 102. Address to the Reader.
A thorough persuasion of this truth manifests
itself at intervals throughout the whole of that useful —
work.
Many are neither to this hour have been printed nor proclaimed but supposing
them to have been proclaimed, are we then better wiser
for our Forefathers having heard them? There is Lawyers
gibberish indeed ready for this too: he that lives
now where after a certain mysterious manner he was present was present at — what was proclaim'd As Abraham paid tithes to Melchior dies
by representation in the loins of his Great Grandfather's
Great Grandfather —
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Must he be forced, in answer to this, to observe seriously,
that at that time he was rather thick of hearing,
and that besides his Ancestor had the misfortune
to be ill a bed at 50 miles off? [distance from the place]?
The Author of the Commentaries in + + v. quotation in a letter from to Sm G. Nieves in a daily paper 12th Nov. 1772. I believe the morning Post.
..... is
pleased to inform his Pupils, that the nobility and gentry in this land & who open his work
do it for instruction and not for groundless panegyric.
It pains me to be obliged to protest & with this abundant
and most obvious proofs, that the truth is otherwise.
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