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Prelud. XVIII
Default The Faults will not serve the work for
example for having been repaired
criticisms on them By giving the emendations 2 a general aspect
the benefit may be universal tho' the
mischief was [but] particular
A Revolution similar to the extraordinary + + extensive
A revolution as A Revolution not more extraordinary
than these it has already under - gone suffer'd might
bring back restore revive to some of the provisions that have
been abolished:[this is [no more than]
what has already happen'd ]╪ ]╪ & I may allow for the in this instance
of Qualifications, raised above the level
old Act of G 3 of the D first Act and again by the Bill present last of it
as it stood after the 1st committment &
again to the same degree upon the 2nd committment.
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When an expression is used throughout the whole
instrument, an but one hasten which is
to satisfy oneself of the ounce of that expression
but when there are twenty different expressions
used one's task is multiplied twenty-fold,
since one has to satisfy oneself concerning
the identity of every one of them.
since it is a reparative task that one has to go through
9. H.5 c.11. The 1st private paid Act
render it from the original jargon in which it is extant into modern English. + + To show that it is jargon, recite a few lines of it ending with [xc]
"In To abbreviate by contracting (says D Bacon) is one
thing, & by cutting off, another." || || Essay on Dispatch
We may find some better way of retrenching our
modern superfluities than by reducing ourselves to the nakedness
of our Ancestors.
more sensible of the existence of the governing to this cause or reason of it .. perhaps from one into the of those , who, in it is the fate of <add> the herd of speculators who in their </add> prejudice can seldom restrain themselves
the common run of man
from being running hurried into its oppostition.
Who seldom have strength of mind to balance midway between extremes
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Discommendable Those very artifices which are a scandal
to the Lawyer party who puts them in practise
form the merit of the Lawyer who
anticipate them in speculation.
Child That Charity the offspring of which blindnesss witness
which in common life may sometimes
The Philosophy of this, who would erect defects if the Head, into virtues of the Heart answer the purposes of discernment
temperd with indulgence is but an ill
virtue in [the Lawyer] an him who the very end of
recommendation whose appointment is the combating of
& who cannot combat what he does not see
[+][+] Whatever tends to the discord it of Human Nature he must be as ready to conceive it probable
in the species, as he should be backward
to believe it existing in the individual.
True Charity & Discernment may admitt of this compromise
A person forcibly stricken with the [sensing]
the] insincerity of this
at first may be disposed to wonder at the
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fecundity of the of the elements of which it is composed
An obscure individual has brought the ax
and pointed it to the part.
gave the stroke it is for the state to strike the Blow,
& up the heads for ever by the seal
of its' authority.
J'entends la son de la moule: mais je
ne vois pas la
It is this nonsense seemingly so indecent
so inherent in appearance that is chargeable with the non-notoriety,
& thence that is [+] [+] among other evils with the same inexecution of the Laws.
It is something to collect the bring together the variety of
& pile them up together materials & collect them into one heap one heap [lump] but this
is still far distant from the erecting out of
them a regular & consistent [edifice] structure [pile]
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