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PRELUDE XII.
besides at the same time that any an alteration, tho' not inconsiste unconformable to
the views of the Legislator, would be inconsistent, because as
every alteration in the substance is must be, with the
fidelity of an abridgment
I have had thoughts of carrying this plan into execution
(as so far as it lies in the power of a private person can to carry it
into execution) with respect to all the various
classes of persons who are separately noticed by the Law:
But besides that the it is an task - irksome to tasks to
but many difficulties stand in the way of such an
attempt enterprise.
Irksome is the task of travelling through all the derivations
of beating the back from uniformity, without any with no appearance of
utility, nor therefore of design.
Where a man has no other choice than
conscious of the of [these parliamentary] privations] of that power from whence only it can have relief.
Assisted by the continual spectacle of
& weaknesses which he cannot remedy which he must not palliate & cannot cure
When to place the . . . . . of the Law in a
conspicuous clear light, is to balance its weakness to the
enemy: & not to do it is not to do that, for the
sake of which alone the enterprise was undertaken.
is to frustrate betray <add>abandon</add> the only purpose of the undertaking
when her wounds must be laid open at the hazard of the physicians were coming to her aid. bind them up
When it is consider'd that it is now 9 years since
a writer whose authority is justly respected and
whose writings have the most extensive consideration
of any that have written on the Law, for this subject has represented
& in vain [represented] the defect of the Law in
so cardinal a point as the article of compelling credence; one may that this be
pardond incompetency of the informer where a reward is
given is has been always known to every man of Law; one may
be pardon'd the apprehension,
The works of the Legislature should be so
executed as to command veneration admiration, not stand demand
in need of indulgence.
In considering it in this view sifting it for this purpose, my business is, not
to produce such objections only as if relied on would
prove available: arguments in prejudice to to the intent but such, as available or
no (in the event) are likely to be relied on.
And here let me give warning once for all
to those (if to the hands of any such this book
should come) who
whose purposes I mean [not] nothing less than
to serve facilitate, that
they have not even my opinion, of how little
consequence, ever it may be, to warrant them
and a relevance in these objections which the necessity
of my undertaking compells me to disclose. Homer's or of a something that shed in to at the same time that it into another
Men-traps.
And to them that among the following many observations Among them, how fair soever the ground [of them may appear <add>may shew] are</add>
are many which are not placed on purpose as man set Men-traps
or Spring-guns to catch such as would be
[ trespassing upon against the Law.] putting kicks upon the Law.
A Dark lanthern to blind the one while it gives light to the other.
If I should be thought upon some occasions to express presume
myself without much reserve, that gravity which in a state sufficiently grave and reverential 'tis not that
I do not feel prove how much I shall should stand in
need of indulgence
I would rather draw
There is scarce any censure that I would not [submitt and urge to draw upon myself] on this account an insens the habitual insensitivity to a plan stile of Legislative composition so prejudicial adverse to the end, of Legislation. to every good end it has in view.
than fail of awakening those whom it concerns
from a lethargy so prejudicial to the interests
of Justice. the public
The expectations of men on this head are as various
as their tempers: & a man might be dull even to
stupidity without saving himself from the anathema
contained in those words of of one of the fathers of our Law, which stigmatize by
the general term of arrogance, the act of opposing
private to public opinion: a censure, from the severity
of which the reputable writer himself might relax, or at
least restrict to the particular subject which provoked it, when
he considers, how much better it is that an obscure
be found rash, than any error in Legislative Law uncorrected unexposed.
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