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Turnp. Act. Prelude
Those observations over which are related principally related
to the particular of the design have this relation application to the general,
in that they serve to shew how naturally or &
indeed necessarily in a manner unavoidably errors of every species class flow from a
neglect of that order & correctness which it is the
purpose of the latter to recommend.
[All] the animadversions that are capable of a general application may be ranged under the following
heads viz.
UnReadiness of expression | — — — — — — | — — — —
— — &c — — — |— — — |— — —
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. . . . After the considerable liberal sacrifices of Brevity that have been
made in 3 one 4 part 5 to 1 Certainty, 2 & to order in another
The Anatomy of an Act of Parliament — or
rather [to speak] as a Chymist would say first decomposed
then recompounded in a new form
The degree of indirectness to which I have descended
in laying open the disadvantages is of the
common method old model, & unfolding the reasons of that the specimens
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in any of those Acts that contain only — few partial
alterations modifications to same and by deferred scattered [& extensive] <add>dismemberd</add> . . . . .
Title.
While I speak of the whole mass however, I would
not be understood as insinuating that the specimen
in question is (for the purpose of exemplifying
the rules of decomposition & composition) to be considered as an a
compleat representative as compleatly represented in itof the it whole: [but only + +(to continue the metaphor) as
serving the record to bring such representative of any that
bring the most
even be made to come off at in one piece]
It extends throughout the whole, tho' it does not embrace cover the whole include They run through the whole, tho' they do not alone compose it. nor therefore that no other rules will be wanting
for the performing the same operation on any
other part than what result from the manipulations
employ'd exhibited on this: what I mean is, that
it comes the nearest to the being such a representative
of any that can be made exists entire to come off in one piece;
& in consequence will furnish the greatest number
of such rules. To run through the whole
Labyrinth & spread open the whole contents of the so
vast a mine, would were be too mighty a task for one
ill provided with many requisite assistances, and
obscure individual with such imperfect presumptions
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IV
nor any, proposed in lieu of it indeed is such, as must doubtless appear trifling & very
disproportionate to the subject, and object but were it to be consider'd
as having no application further but merely than to the
particular design. if nothing more in the process were to be consider'd than it's application to the particular design. alone to be consider'd
But the Reader will consider what is here done, as
done according to the ..... in the views of manners of those Chymists,
who in analyzing a specimen of a mine of whose
contents they undertake to give an account, bestow investigate
weigh the several subjects ingredients with their interest a ...
which they never would have employd for the sake
of obtaining, the .... of that single parcel, but for
the idea judgment that may be obtained from it of the whole.
Tis the whole mass therefore of the Statute Law;
rather than this minute small fragment of it
that the Reader is to consider as decomposing
in the observations on the old Draught; & recombining
in the new one for in which propose design <add>view</add>
a specimen fit rich was carefully related to for the operation
upon: experiment such an one as should contain including a Branch of
the Law compleat within itself, should contain
a greater variety of Articles than can be found in to be met with
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supported only by those imperfect presumptions of success as ........ can afford give him an obscure individual can rise to
The provisions in this made out to be
division of them into previous Substantive & Adjective —
That the Trustees Lectia is Adjective, is stabilitive constitutive
of a Const.
That the series of Adjective (in the Section of Adjective)
is compleat or meant to be so.
An 2 Adjective provision concerning evidence viz:
proof in Def.n & View, among the substantives
Why?
The only matter that the Statutes repeated in part by
that under consideration relate to besides the subject in question,
is [quo de hoc] that of Navigation works: as the
provisions relative to the one & the other of this subject
are inextricably in many places mingled in the same Sections, in
many Sections the Repeal does nothing to the distburthening
of the Collection: with a very little trouble these
Sections might be reduced into one Act after the manner
of this (tho' with much less trouble) & there the finishing stroke
might be given as they are but few to those Statutes altogether.
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