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Prelud. XVI.
By this analysis, the public may now see distinctly
spread before them the ingredients of
that unsavoury hash, an Act of Parliament —
Double Double Toil & Trouble — Fire burn & Cauldron bubble.
If the smell savour of it hath long been rank smelt in to the
nostrils of men those very persons of taste & judgment whom
the power authority of usage custom hath forced to serve it up
they may to what it is owing
Garbage Trash
(how they may be separated (ready to be [cast upon the dunghill] if those
how it may be cleared of them for ever, if those <add>whenever</add> on whom it.
.... depends shall so please.
Sex Number It will result incontestibly that the particulars
which come under the topics in question, as expressed concisely with these rules
to give them due extension, & as expressed at length
with that degree of uniformity which is, ordinarily preserved
or can ordinarily be expected to be, preserved, are
at the worst in point of precision & amplitude
upon a footing
The reader may might perhaps think imagine, that I took
pains to select this from a number of others known
not to be obnoxious to the liked censures: that therefore
the inference from this to them is not just.
But that I can assume is not the case:
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It is the first and only one I have made trial of
for the purpose: but indeed the task is not so delightful
as that it to render it necessary to take much pains to persuade induce a persuasion
that it
were I not impressed with that full conviction which I
hope the proofs herein contained will be a means of communicating
to every reader that may still want them, . . .
The verbosity which is the approbation defaces <add>disfigures the beauty</add> of our Laws
is no more necessary to their efficacy - - - -
No more necessary than the a wen or the dropsy
is to the vigor of the human frame. constitution
No means of referring with any certainty from one part of any Instru to another
of the same Instrument, as to any part of a different Instrument
without tedious repetition
Quare vetus Servatum.
As a specimen, it is better [it should be] short
than long: the insertion of those particulars
which have been added in the new act would
not have afforded any opportunity of
explaining any other parts of the design
that what are explained without them: &
they, together with the observations which for
the sake of uniformity I could not have
avoided subjoining to them would have added
greatly to the bulk of an essay, which after
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exemplifying Displaying on a subject chosen for the purpose defects [diseases] incident to
those Instruments, according to a regular plan method
after a new method with the means of care
Including also &c
Had I contented myself with enumerating the
several examples of redundanise under that
general appellation
[but] by distributing them into certain classes
for each of which a peculiar denomination is devised,
the reader would probably have assented
to the charge but without passing a judgment, that should be extendible beyond the individual subject-matter. but by a judgment which would hardly of itself be extended beyond the individual instrument from which they were taken
The nature of each class being well ap- comprehended
by the means of the examples particulars it contains, a reader may be
able to pronounce intuitively as it were [with
equal rapidity & certainty] concerning any
example that shall occur in any other instrument
whether & in what manner - [that of law] it
is redundant: the several denominations justifying
while they particularize the . . . . serving while they particularize to justify
every endeavour to keep it within compass
with the length of which I cannot help being dissatisfied with as too
large. long
That any one sentence may be brought under
the eye at the same instant with any other.
. . . acting in this no otherwise than Mathematicians,
who content themselves with demonstrating
one out of many cases into which a
theorem Problem may resolve itself, when the steps,
to be taken whereby the remaining ones cases are to be demonstrated,
are the same.
. . . . that when I speak of insist upon a stile method <add>the using</add> of composition
much more compendious abbreviated than that in
use as possible, In proof of the assertion I may have an instance
to refer to where it has been done
. . . that as when I come to mention the several
species of defect of composition here noticed in this essay, I may have a plan
specimen to refer, where examples are collected in
much greater number and variety than they could
be properly furnished in
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