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Nov. 1810
Prizes
Unfortunately this last mentioned and
remedy is not of the number of those laws which
are said to execute themselves: that is, which are capable
of producing and likely to produce their of intended effect without the
of calling in and setting to work the what
is called the hand of justice – the diluting, the vexation
the excoriating and excruciating hand of technical judicature.
The sort of remedy which is administered by this
hand is always at the best itself a disease; and very frequently
without administering any relief, and in producing nothing but
exacerbation an additional and a still worse disease
in addition to the original disease.
In the way of compleat cure, viz – by compleat
and adequate compensation it scarce ever is seen
to operate. What good effect it does produce, it
produces almost solely in the way by means of terror, viz.
terror of that virtual but too surely levied
the produce of which is distributed in a large proportion paid to the
of those by whose power it is . part imposed.
associates professional in the other departments
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