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... Nor will he have much reason to complain,
if with 13000£ from the public,
& the robe of magistracy from the Crown, he
sits down with that share of reputation for
his work undo his design which it shall appear upon scrutiny
to deserve.
In vain would he his admirers interest the public in his fate + + favour
by accusing reproaching the severity of criticism as of being a discouragement
to laborious merit: It is not any opinion effect
that this enquiry is calculated to produce, that
can contribute raise to a persuasion
that those who dedicate an honest & ... their pen to the instruction
of the public will meet with less than their due
portion of reward.
It will teach him to look to himself ere in the character of a political instructor he ventures
into the awful presence of the public:
to prepare arm himself with the discernment to discover,
& the courage to proclaim all the truth
which it is his interest to know, & his province
to announce.
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TITLE
A Comment on the Commentaries or an Introduction to the Introduction on the Laws of England
being + + Which a review of that part of Dr Blackstone's
Commentaries on the Laws of England which are intitled
to serve as a supplement to that work) Introduction
..... Motto "Vetores avias libi de pubarone revello."
These errors of the understanding, tho with equal
justice the matter of animadversion on account
of the public, would not be matter of blame
[on the part of] to the writer; were the will
wholly without it's share in producing their production them
were it not that, But the disingenuity which disposes a man
to conceal truth from the eyes of others is naturally
and aptly punished by the blindness which
renders her invisible to his own.
I repeat it as a lesson to those who are young in
the pursuit of knowledge: those who from selfish
consideration shut their ears against truth or deny
her with their tongue under the influence of selfish prudence or a culpable timidity are by a just & natural
connection of things punished by with an imbecillity
shall seem that will betray them into errors
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One might wish unquestionably for other Legislators
but I know not that one need ever wish be anxious for any
another Judge.
to confess proclaim as to perceive — in the object of their criticism
a man excellently well qualified for a station
an important & exalted of exalted dignity of high trust & dignity in which the discernment of
the crown has placed him.
They would have thought themselves unjust, if in
the same sheets which contained their censure
on the work, had not convey'd to all that should ever read therein,
their well-merited tribute of their respect to the man. they had not joined the public in the well-merited tribute of respect which it pays to the Judge & to the man.
It was neither the apology not the a panegyric nor a Satire that
they the wished meant to give on account either of the
public, the object, or themselves.
..... continud from I When he can [still put a good countenance upon
the matter] call in the end of ..... abunditers
to fortify him in the course of sentiment &
which the ......... of men in power
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makes profitable to those who embrace persevere in it: has made the road to favour & advancement ...And ye would not But now are these things hidden from your eyes Repulse truth when she visits you, or turn aside from the pursuit of her and when you call, she will not come.
BLACKSTONE [III.]
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