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Decr 1810
Prize
It is thus that in Turkey men build modern
out of ancient . In the foundation A fragment of piece broken off from an antique
forms the first stone of the foundation, upon
it is laid a piece broken off from the base. What
Turkish shoulder is among Architects, such the
or business of this Art are among legislators.
Looking to see what "Great characters with or without
labours lent their names to this work, the
names I see are
Imperfections thus gross might by the most ordinary
measure of honest sincere attention have been avoided.
But, with the production of any equal mass of legal matter
equal in bulk to this Act that shall not swarm
with imperfections with , with superfluities
with inconsistencies, with enigmas and
those enigmas unresolvable, adherence to the legislative stile in
is altogether incompatible impossible. As Acts of Parliaments
are Upon the sort of place which he
to at present has one Act of Parliament to draw is
to pursue, if his Act be of a certain length, it
when he has drawn it and who it is next to impossible
for him to know what it is he has done. By
to accumulate all the heap together and secure against detection
and usurpation all the mischievous vices of which language is
susceptible, such of if it in so far as it has any, is has been the object
of the stile in use.
Identifier: | JB/547/166/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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