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<note>Corpus delicti<lb/> Weights &c</note> | <note>Corpus delicti<lb/> Weights &c</note> | ||
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The importance of an uniformity of weights and<lb/> measures within <add>under</add> the same government and among<lb/>people speaking <add>using</add> in other respects the same language,<lb/>is a point that one should think would not much to<lb/>be said in proof of it: <del>to | The importance of an uniformity of weights and<lb/> measures within <add>under</add> the same government and among<lb/>people speaking <add>using</add> in other respects the same language,<lb/>is a point that one should think would not much to<lb/>be said in proof of it: <del>to him who knows not the amount</del><lb/>a standard <add>measure</add> to him who knows not the amount of it is<lb/>as none at all. If the <del>place</del> measures in use in the <lb/>place you want to deal with are different from those<lb/>you have been accustomed to, <del>either</del> the names they are<lb/>known by are either different from the names of<lb/>those you have been accustomed to or the same: if different<lb/>they are as no measures at all: to form any<lb/>conception of the amount of them you must either<lb/>compare them to your own measures, or to some others<lb/>which you have brought into comparison with your<lb/>own: the language of the man you have thoughts of<lb/>dealing with is to this purpose a strange language:<lb/>to collect any ideas from it you must translate it<lb/>either <del>to</del> into your own or into some other you have<lb/>learnt. If the names of his measures are <del>different</del> <add>the</add><lb/><del>f</del> same with those of your own measures; while the<lb/>measures themselves are different, <del>in two cases out<lb/>of</del> there is one chance indeed of finding yourself the <lb/>better for it but you have two chances for finding <lb/>yourself the worse. Whether you be in the one case or<lb/>the other will depend upon <del>three</del> two circumstances: 1. <note>upon</note></p> | ||
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Indirect
Corpus delicti
Weights &c
The importance of an uniformity of weights and
measures within under the same government and among
people speaking using in other respects the same language,
is a point that one should think would not much to
be said in proof of it: to him who knows not the amount
a standard measure to him who knows not the amount of it is
as none at all. If the place measures in use in the
place you want to deal with are different from those
you have been accustomed to, either the names they are
known by are either different from the names of
those you have been accustomed to or the same: if different
they are as no measures at all: to form any
conception of the amount of them you must either
compare them to your own measures, or to some others
which you have brought into comparison with your
own: the language of the man you have thoughts of
dealing with is to this purpose a strange language:
to collect any ideas from it you must translate it
either to into your own or into some other you have
learnt. If the names of his measures are different the
f same with those of your own measures; while the
measures themselves are different, in two cases out
of there is one chance indeed of finding yourself the
better for it but you have two chances for finding
yourself the worse. Whether you be in the one case or
the other will depend upon three two circumstances: 1. upon
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