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A View of the Hard-Labour Bill.
the very instrument which it is intended should pass into
an Act.
The present abstract of it having no pretensions
to be considered in that light, I have held myself at
liberty to afford the reader many of those assistances which
Parliamentary men in all their authoritative publications
seem so studious to reject — I leave therefore prefixed
numbers to the sections: I have given them marginal
contents: I have made frequent breaks in the letter
press: I have numbered every now & then the leading
articles, which, though included together in one section,
seemed to claim, each of them, a separate measure of
attention; and by giving allotting to each a separate line, have
displayed them more distinctly than if lumped together
in one unbroken mass. These and other such typographical
assistances are no more than what is common
enough for writers on the most ordinary subjects to give
their readers: nor would they be looked upon as singular,
or indeed worth mentioning, but with respect to those
intricate and important discourses which stand most
in need of them.
Another and rather more serious task has been
to break down the long sentences into which this composition
(being intended to be passed into an Act of Parliament)
could not but have been cast, into a multitude
of shorter ones; to retrench the tautologies & superfluities
with which this composition, though remarkably scanty
on this head, (being intended for an Act of Parliament)
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