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1828 Sept. 12
Blackstone

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Preface
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At the very threshold, the reader will be introduced in find himself in company
four no fewer than four most important and highly busily active personages at once: and
Universal Jurisprudence at every step he will find himself
receiving instructions from either th some one of them or some
other. Some one of them: for unfortunately he will find them but
too often not agreeing together quite so well as it were to be
wished they did.

Reader in company with
four personages viz.
1. Un. Jurisprudence
2. Law as it ought to be
3. Do — — — is
4 Do — — — pretends to be.
Of female sex: not per
learned gent. to object to
the fiction.

These are — 1. Universal Jurisprudence. 2. Law as she
ought to be. 3. Law as she is. 4. Law as she pretends to
be. All of the female sex: all The first the Mother: the three others, to be, daughters; to each other sisters. By their presence
and the contrast which to so large wide an extent their characters
Author speaks per the
characters, they not like
celebrated Potato.
will be seen to present when compared with one another,
some little less, will perhaps, it is hoped be seen to be given to
the scene: and if on presenting them to the parly reader in the such their
character of persons, there be a spin of fiction, it is not
at any rate for learned gentlemen to make any very
strong objection on that score. Alas! if no worse use
than is made here had ever been made of fiction, in the
field of law, the field of human life society would not be quite
so full of human misery as it is seen and felt to be.

Follows then in this little theatre, the legal Law drama,
as the French would say call it a Proverbe: and those Characters
in it but four: and they are those the above.

By a more able dramatist They might perhaps have been made to speak for themselves each for themselves⊞1 ⊞1 like the once celebrated Potatoes.,(a)
(a) Potatoes one of which
on a certain occasion, I
made entry into a carriage of the Kings when his Majesty was in it. The vocal character were the discovery of a Magistrate.

But in general, as it is is has generally speaking the author has
found himself, as in a puppet show, to speak for them.⊞2 ⊞ or as does that
wondrous Being, whose
name was among the
heathen Gods, Protius,
now is, amongst us
mortals, Matthew.

Identifier: | JB/031/121/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-09-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	121	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9807
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