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ObservationsXXIV
Despairing (as with some reason they may) of a perfect
obedience they will take up with that
promise no more than to procure produce a partial one,
but such a partial one, as the event often shews
to be insufficient to answer the purposes of the Law.
Whereas as Mechanics in calculating the
effect of their Machines, always often make [considerable their utmost industry
employ'd in mitigating the effects of abatementallowance on the account of Inertia & others
to which their work is liable, yet fail not to make
a considerable deduction abatement on these accounts, so
ought Legislators in calculating the force to lay their account of their
engines to be persuaded, that many more obstacles
will spring up to their execution than what they
can foresee, much more all they do foresee.
§ 6.
Ahab hath served Baal a little: but Jehu
shall serve him much —
The following Sections of the original prepared in with the interpolations
that manner that the real ones here inserted may serve as a commentary
on this text.
As a proof that so much more than enough becomes
less I have here inserted all along the additions
necessary to make it consistent with itself
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The Nugatory2 Preamble1
This Statute to Where something is to be said, the ways of saying it may come under tolerable cal-culation. But the ways of saying nothing at all are infinite. It may not be easy to discover & to class every
distinguishable species of nugation: this Statute
will furnish us with 2.
1st Recital of the possibility of an obvious mischief
meant to be prevented.
2d Recital in general terms of the existence that a certain practice
is inconvenient — superseded or both
by the very act the possibility of an act <add>event and its imagined mischief inconvenience</add>
of prohibition. Or these — 1st Recital that a practice
meant to be prevented is mischievous. 2nd Recital that it is possible.
§ 23
I cannot very well understand a the reason there is to be an example why Noblemen's
& Gentleman's carriages are to be exempted from
all these regulations because he has is a Gentleman by being "covered" when there is none for such
as are open. are not exempted.
Nor why a man upon the this condition of covering his carriage
a man is to be allow'd bear up the Load, with any weight
drawn by any number of horses he thinks proper.
But if he assumes those insignia of a Gentleman
a cover'd carriage which is to how can it be thoug whatever is a Exempted man is to
suppose presume take upon him to suppose from that what is in the inside of it is not
for the owner's own use
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and contemplating it all along according to the plan adopted traced out here and there
in different parts of the instrument. Statute
In this view I have care has been taken not
to insert any for which a precedent
is not to be met with2 in some part
of it or other.1
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CARRIERS
Had I been able to satisfy myself concerning the
respective denominations of persons carriages to which the
several parts Articles of this division respectively relate
It would have contributed still further to perspicuity might have been a still further perpetual improvement
to have broken it into subdivisions corresponent
to their denominations — The Law concerning the owners of of private
carriages would thus have be made one Section: that
concerning carriages used only in Husbandry another a 2d
That concerning Public Carriages in general, a 3d.
And here [it is] we may feel at once see the advantages of a synoptic
representation: whereby & of a compacted stile,
without which indeed the former scarely could
have place.
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By the 1st the multitude of particular propositions
of which a more general proposition is in
some way or other predicated, are together
with it, that general proposition brought under the eye at once:
By means of the 2d, the eye is enabled to fastens in the instant fastens on the object in the instant
on that which it is in quest of, no longer
doomed to the hideous drudgery labors of picking out
one by one the significant the words significant, from the
insignificant.
An expedient, by virtue force of which whereby, the toil of legislation might
be reduced, or I much mistake, to a degree
not easily to be conceived.
§ 6c.
It certainly is not every Aactfunction <add>purpose effect</add> of a repealed Statute repealed
that is rescinded by the repealing Statute: all acts transacted
under it remain intact: with respect to them
it is considered as having spent itself & having
had it's force.
Suppose a temporary Act to repeal another
Act: would the latter be considered as revived
by the expiration of the former?
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