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7 Civil Introd 6
Mode
part, what would be the degree of relief resulting
to the which nation (Clergy and Laity together) from
such a diminution of the public burthens as might
be affected by the produce of such a sale? See
the suffering on one part against the relief
in the other, the ballance will give on which
ever side it be, will give the degree of eligibility expediency
or ineligibility inexpediency belonging to the such a measure.
Such is the species and mode of inquiry dictated
by the system adopted in this work. What was
the mode object of inquiry with the French Assembly?
Are the estates at present in the hands of the
Clergy their property or not? This question now
instead of turning altogether upon feelings, turns
altogether upon words: and as the import of
words used in law is altogether at the command of those who
are masters of the law, give the word in question
the import required, and the business is done at
a word. Define property in such a manner as
to include the estates that are in their hands, or
what comes to the same thing, say at once that the estates
that are in their hands, and have been in their hands
as long as the estates property of any other man has been
in his hands, is not their property, say that they
are
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