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done by a man in office with the approbation of his superiors
and according to the forms of office — it then becomes
practice — which is as much as to say right and laudable
practice. And indeed 1 not only in regard to such
particular things but to things in general — when an
event has happened, and known beyond dispute to
have done so — such is the candour and discernment of
Right Honourable and Honourable gentlemen — they admit
at once without dispute the possibility of it.
Accordingly when the idea was started, and started as
applicable to England — it took luxury as yet born carried made
into practice in New South Wales — it was what
it could not but be wild, romantic, speculative, visionary
enthusiastic absurd and impracticable. Beyond this Further than this my recollection
does not carry me: and for any of the last arguments
(for any one of these epithets is sufficient has wish has stuff enough virtue
in itself for a perfectly conclusive argument) I must wait for
the time till the from Gradus ad Parnassum an implement which
formerly I found in our younger days we find so necessary to the construction fabrication
of latin poetry, the shall behold the fellow to it constructed
for the use of English official prose. Such the idea was at
the time, when as it came spewed forth unhallowed from an unofficial
p breast. But bur having since that time invested with the
robes of practice been not only started but pursued and
carried into effect by an effort of the Crown by a gentleman
furnished with a Commission in due form of office from an Office which Your
Lordship knows of theory the miracle incarnation is overnight — theory
is made practice — a double estoppel is opposed to placed off bolts out upon the + + abhorrers of innovation — the worshippers of practice the Gentlemen
of the — by the fact thing are concluded from
calling it impossible denying it to be possible and so forth — by the sort of person by whom
it is done they are concluded from calling it any but denying it to be thing correct and commendable.
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jeremy bentham |
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