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That when to we ask of him a fish, he should
cheat us with a serpent.
De-Merits — Summing up. That he should so often be the divine when
he should be the politician, the Orator when
he should be the Preceptor, the Copyist
when he should be the Author, the Panegyrist
when he should be the Censor, the
subject, not to say the slave, when he should
be the citizen.

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Merits. The principal use it is of, is
It is of use to those who are already conversant
in the main, in that method plane of division.

None equal to him, possesses makes better use the talent of
proving what is not indisputable: which he exercises
the more freely, to make up for his
never proving nothing scarce that is.

I pass by .....
Not that .. &c if it is of any consequence.
[points of antiquarianism for example.]

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Success accounted for. To what a degree the Judgment is in the
power of the sense, and the imaginitive I mean the decisions
of the judgment concerning the truth of
a set of notions, propositions and the pain or pleasure
the with which the sense is affected by the
words that are the signs of them, and the
imagination by the supposed analogous images
that are brought in to adorn them,
let [I need only appeal to] Lord Chesterfield
declare. And what is true concerning the impressions
made on the sense in while hearing speaking
is not little less so of the copies of those impressions
[traced upon] that fleet along the mind in reading while reading.

In the work at large The ear led captive by melody of smooth
sounds: The eye In the Analysis and more especially in the
synoptic view prefixed to it, the eye dazzled

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by the shew of symmetry. Of the effect of
that symmetry, a great part due to the author
as the contriver of the external mechanism
and but not a little to the Printer as the executor
of the external mechanism.

Merits. His Analysis and gives a facility in passing, of passing
and as an abridgment of it his Synopsis
a facility of passing still more rapidly from one title
division of those in use to another.
It does little or nothing towards correcting that
division, and making it more fit for the purposes
it is or ought to be designed for.
to know what Laws to meet with under what title that of enabling the greatest number of persons possible
to arrive at a true knowlege of the contents
of the several body of Laws in being, and of turning
as speedily as possible to that part in particular
that upon a given occasion shall happen
to concern them.

BLACKSTONE VI.

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