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16 March 1810
Sinecures
Proper names the best article
for an index purely alphabetical,
names not being diversifiable, subject a diversification.
Foreign Estreats – Nichils – Foreign Pope –
Foreign Appear – Green Wax – what idea would
be conveyed by any of those mysterious words cabbalistical expressions
standing by itself or what would come to the same
thing, occupying each its place in an index
purely alphabetical. But when a man learns
that of those mysteries the Court Exchequer is the
stage on which those mysteries are acted, he then
inquires of what it is in by what they are
respectively worth learns what they respectively mean
and thereby everything that is worth knowing of those
and so many other secrets of the same kind in the
same place.
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