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28 Feb 1810
Sinecures

At the bottom of all this play of words and figures is this net
sum recreation sum mathematical recreation – in the
spite of Ozanam or Hopper: or some other – in the plain language
it may be asked is there not some joke?

In an establishment built upon an antient and solid one of those
foundations in which solidity is the fruit of antiquity, and
in which with the help under favour of a mutual good understanding,
business is conducted upon an easy footing, truth, no
longer an object of terror becomes may be seen converted into a subject as well as
a source of sport and pastime.

Upon my first entrance into the study of the law finding calling in
at the Office of a professional friend who was concerned in one
side in a dispute about a wall, among the papers the first paper I happened
to take up was a sort of a thing called a Declaration of in Trespass. The weapons
with the assistance of which the trespass had been, or rather
had the any weapons been employed would have been,
committed, ships, slaves were in great variety particularized: and the of
each the multitude was such that had they all been musquets,
each musquet having a disciplined man to shoulder it
and all those men on British pay on Spanish ground,
the Spanish revolution would in all probability have had a termination
rather considerably more auspicious than any which it is now likely
to have.

The dispute wall happening not to be altogether unknown
to me any more than the wall out of which it had sprung dispute war which had given of it
and it being thereupon also known to me that in the carrying or waging
of this war, no other weapons weapons of more a sharper texture had been used than words
my surprize the surprize I was struck with at the sight of so numerous copious a return
of military stores found vent in words. The explanation
I received was that so far as concerned the
enumeration of the articles species of weapons employed on an occasion of the
sort in question, or at least of some species as having
been thus employed a statement was absolutely necessary
viz.

Identifier: | JB/147/385/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	385	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles	Wall
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49610
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