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II Criminality
Costibilty
Illegality
1. from
Baldwin's account of J.B.
7 continued
But for knowing understanding what to do about this individual
he had as good a still better an oracle as for than for
understanding how what to do about the law. For the law His Law
His oracle for law and general wisdom of the case, these people had chosen for him, —
it was Mr John King. But for the science
of who is who and the science of who and who
are together, for that sort of science the professor of
which was stated in Roman times a Nomenclator
he had an oracle of his own devising — a
man after his own heart, it was Mr. William
Baldwin. Him [+] [+] & at the expence of
so many hundred
£ a year
of the public money he had planted in his own
office, with the appearance of doing something
and with a title of office to give a colour
to that appearance. From Mr Baldwin he had
the satisfaction comfort of learning that the individual in
question was indeed a mere individual — an individual
and nothing more: a man of no party: a man
not connected with any noble or illustrious even powerful family
by birth, alliance or dependence: a man who was
not in parliament nor was ever likely likely to
be: a sort of ⊞2 a word ⊞2 a man who had
neither by writing printing
nor by speaking
nor by fraternizative correspondence —
nor by three times
those had ever
attempted to raise
or ever could would
or could raise any sort of disturbance a man who had once been in the
law and had while when he was as poor as Job,
had quitted it, nobody could imagine why no human creature/being could tell
whyor wherefore without any attempt to better himself,
a sort of a book worm, who had was said to have got crotchets
in his head [+]3[+]3 and who might
have a vision to be
troublesome with
them, if Mr Pitt
had not kept his
wage for him but [as they were] all speculative, he so that
might as well have nothing in it.] That in a word
he
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