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OBSTACLES VOLUMINOUSNESS PERSPICUITY

Even the Author of the Commentaries, when unoccupied vacant from <add>at ease
for a moment by the terrors of any a particular application [of it] can
for decency's sake at least avow the maxim+ + 4. Comm. 410 that "Law
"being intended for universal reception ought to be a"
plain rule of action", & not that "service of the greatest
intricacy", which he tells us the Norman practitioners
had made it. — The however , quickly
returns when he peremptorily assures usII II in the next page sentence., that "the dialect of "
"which these scholastic reformers have transmitted to posterity"
"are so interwoven in the body of our legal Polity, that"
"they cannot now be taken out without a manifest injury"
"to the substance".II

II The of the
embroider'd Garment
is here abused to
much the same purpose,
as that for
which it's first inventor
in whom
there is such an abundance
of the most exquisite
wit, & such
a difficulty of sound
reason, called it up.
v. Swift's Tale of a
Tub.

In spite of a confession which he finds himself obliged to
make on the very back of that assurance, that the
"Statutes after Statutes which have in later times been"
"made to off these troublesome excrescences, and"
"restore the common Law to that "a" certain primitive
simplicity of vigor" which he loves to fancy, "have
"greatly succeeded" altogether "still the scars (it seems) are"
"deep & visible".

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