JB/087/154/004

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Indirect

Corpus delicti
Weights &c

The importance of an uniformity of weights and
measures within under the same government and among
people speaking using in other respects the same language,
is a point that one should think would not much to
be said in proof of it: to him who knows not the amount
a standard measure to him who knows not the amount of it is
as none at all. If the place measures in use in the
place you want to deal with are different from those
you have been accustomed to, either the names they are
known by are either different from the names of
those you have been accustomed to or the same: if different
they are as no measures at all: to form any
conception of the amount of them you must either
compare them to your own measures, or to some others
which you have brought into comparison with your
own: the language of the man you have thoughts of
dealing with is to this purpose a strange language:
to collect any ideas from it you must translate it
either to into your own or into some other you have
learnt. If the names of his measures are different the
f same with those of your own measures; while the
measures themselves are different, in two cases out
of there is one chance indeed of finding yourself the
better for it but you have two chances for finding
yourself the worse. Whether you be in the one case or
the other will depend upon three two circumstances: 1. upon

Identifier: | JB/087/154/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	154	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27679
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