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What possibility of success let his sagacity be what it will, a man
in full possession even of every particular submersed to their consideration can flatter himself to be able to trace out by anticipation the line
of division followed taken by men of so many different judgements tempers
degrees of integrity and knowledge I leave any one who has
will take the trouble ever tried the experiment through 10. or 12 cases to imaging
We are some intimation from informed by Burnet + + Hist: Ref. 1. 257. of a plan which was drawn up
by S.r Nic'. Bacon by order of K. Hen. 8.th of a kind of seminary
or College for the improvement of all branches of Political
knowledge, which that Monarch designed to have carried into
execution, if his profusion had not anticipated the funds which
so extinsive an establishment would have required.
Part of the business one of the occupations of of its members was to have been (" along with
that of "Embassies, Treaties and other foreign transactions")
the writing of the History of all Arrainments, and public Trials
at home?" — "This noble design (adds the Historian) miscarried.
But if it had been well laid (says he) & regulated
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it is easy to gather what great and public advantages might
have flowed from it." One may wonder a little that the great
Bacon Son of that S.r Nicholas, has taken no notice of this
either in his project for ...... offer'd to K: Jam. 1.st
or in that part of his Aphorisms of Jurisprudence where he
touches on the subject of reporting.
Indefinite is in a manner tantemount to infinite: were the mass of Jurisprudence
ten times more bulky than in fact it is, it would
appear, if brought altogether into view less formidable and
overwhelming, than in it's present form of dark and mysterious
immensity.
Decisions by being kept in darkness they are not less obligatory
when on a sudden they are brought to light, nor therefore
less necessary to be seen in time by all.
K.11. PKOMUIG. Poor Laws ripe for Digestion.
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The ample and important Title of the Poor Laws is actually
ripe for the this operation: the collection of all the materials
which have been created during a period of 40 years
ending at the present time having now by the industry of
a Reporter, to whom that important & too much neglected —
province of Jurisprudence owes more than it has yet done
to any man, been perfected and made public.
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