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NOTORIETY. 3. Use to Legislators
with the dilemma of either abandoning altogether as is done commonly done, that business of Collation,
so necessary to prevent error & confusion, or of plunging at every stop, into a Labyrinth,
which human Intellect shudders to explore at exploring, & of which therefore the task of exploring is left by each compositor to
be performed by the subject at his peril, & by any succeeding compositor under a difficulty fatigue
which he left to another him with increase because he found it but too great already:
of turning over page after page forwards & then back again, of straining out the
scatter'd sense from the Ocean of words in which it's deluged, of hunting piecing the broken
corruptions insulated together at the perpetual risk of not having collected them compleatly, or letting
fall somewhat of what has been collected, of of bearing in hand the <add>genuine import of a clause while it is </add> hunting ed for for a clean from page to page & from
Volume to Volume till even the Memory sometimes will lets it fall through weariness.
Of this mischief of Against [the relapse of] Homoionomies, when once cured in any article a mischief which never would have existed if this <add>method had been originally pursued</add> this method will be a
perpetual preservative tion
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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