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III Experience
II Ireland
(2) Plans for Charlemont
Improbability of reform
Multitude of plans
( ) Hardy p.264. Ao 1783 Novr 10. "From every quarter,
and from every speculative, great Clerks, or no Clerks at
all, (p.265) was poured in " (to the Convention) such a + multiplicity + Copy to "to
flight" in p.265
"of plans of reform, some of them ingenious, some which
"bespoke and exercised and rational mind, but, in general,
"as I have been well assured, so utterly impracticable. "So
"rugged and so wild in their attire," they looked not like "the
"offspring of inhabitants of the earth, and yet were on it;"
"that language would sink in pourtraying this motley
"band of incongruous fancies, of mis-shapen theories, valuable
"only if inefficient, or execrable, if efficacious. All
"this daily issued from presumptuous empirics, or the
"the vainly busy minds of some political philanthropists,
"whom the good breeding alone of their Countrymen
"permitted to be regarded, as not totally out of
"their senses. The Committee shewed a perseverance
"almost marvellous, but the musky conceits, and
"solemn vanities of such pretenders, would have put
"even the patience of the man of Ug to flight.
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