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6

A View of the Hard-Labour Bill.

could not but abound. In the course of these operations,
I have here & there ventured to make some little alterations
in the order of the several matters contain'd in
the same section: with entire sections however I have
no where taken the like liberty.

This abstract then, (to mention a more general
use that may be made of it) will of itself be sufficient
to prove, that a sentence of any given length
is capable of being cast into as many sentences, and
consequently that each sentence is capable of being
made into as short, as there can be occasion to
desire. It is therefore of itself sufficient to divest
the long-windedness of our legislative (one may say
in general of our legal) stile, of the plea of necessitys,
the only one which a man could think of urging
in it's favour. Had this been even any principal
object, I should of all others wish'd for a Bill like
this to work upon, for the same reason that
the grammarian takes the works of Pope, & Swift
and Addison for examples of solicisms in grammar +
+ see Robert Lowth's Grammar passion

But to return. By the means above mentioned
I will venture to hope (and that without any
pretensions to make is a ground of vanity) that
this abstract may be found to read more pleasantly
than even the Bill itself: and that on this head
the reader who means only to take a general view of




Identifier: | JB/119/009/002
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119

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panopticon

Folio number

009

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preface a view of the hard-labour bill

Image

002

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Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

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f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]

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Notes public

ID Number

39520

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