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1826. July Aug. 1
Penal Code.Form
Ch. Phraseology
§. Length of Sentence
But to the difficulty in respect of obtaining conception, judgement, and reminiscence
with relation to the whole no addition is made by the
addition thus made in this way to the voluminousness ot it. By An index
the eye is as promptly conveyed to the passage wanted by
in the largest folio as in the smallest duodecim. Just so is
it in the case of a dictionary. If by the lettering at the back
you are informed is to without need of opening and searching the
several volumes in which Volumes the word the explanation of which
you stand in need of is contained a dictionary of twenty volumes
is not more difficult to consult do not render a dictionary more difficult to consult than one would
When the objects whatever be their multitude are presented
to the mind one by one; if it finds itself in a state of
comparative repose: there is nothing to hurry it on its course:
for any length of time it gives its undivided attention to that one.
When a in as in the course of a lengthy paragraph or
in an Act of Parliament – objects – propositions actual or virtual
are presented to one by dozens seem a hundred, it is hurried
off by each from every other: – in amongst them it finds
no red: it is in a state of bewilderment, in relation to no one
of them can it obtain any clear conception from any clear judgment,
return any clear reminiscence.
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