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Now would I engage <add>(</add>for a small fee<add>)</add> <add>The fee should be a good one</add> <add><unclear>a farthing lacking</unclear></add>by treating it <hi rend='underline'>secundum artem</hi>, by opening the propositions <add>to</add> one <add><gap/><del><gap/>deleted text</del>of</add>whom <add><unclear>the lack of</unclear></add>another, by sprinkling in the propoer expletives of tautologies, <add>without adding or <gap/> an idea</add>so to enfeeble and confound that admirable performance <add>composition</add>, that the veriest drudge in <add>an</add> <del>a lawyer's</del> office might mistake it for his own. | Now would I engage <add>(</add>for a small fee<add>)</add> <add>The fee should be a good one</add> <add><unclear>a farthing lacking</unclear></add>by treating it <hi rend='underline'>secundum artem</hi>, by opening the propositions <add>to</add> one <add><gap/><del><gap/>deleted text</del>of</add>whom <add><unclear>the lack of</unclear></add>another, by sprinkling in the propoer expletives of tautologies, <add>without adding or <gap/> an idea</add>so to enfeeble and confound that admirable performance <add>composition</add>, that the veriest drudge in <add>an</add> <del>a lawyer's</del> office might mistake it for his own. | ||
It was <add>an <gap/></add> a thought of the <sic>Alchymists</sic> <add>a set of men who <gap/> not to be accused</add> [(to whom no <gap/> of industry <del>could be <gap/></del> <add>on the <gap/> of</add> their researches could be <gap/> <add>objected</add>)] to attempt the degradation of that metal which was the grand object of their researches as a [help <add>means of throwing some light upon</add>to the knowledge of] its composition. And in the <add>a <gap/></add> same view it is, that a <add>an excellent</add> celebrated philosopher of a neighbouring nation has pro-posed an <gap/> <hi rend='underline'>Auto</hi>philosophical as a work that might have its use. | |||
The mode of instruction is to propose models of excellence for imitation, [another and sometimes not less useful one is to exhibit] models of de-<lb/>pravity for avoidance. | |||
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Now would I engage (for a small fee) The fee should be a good one a farthing lackingby treating it secundum artem, by opening the propositions to one deleted textofwhom the lack ofanother, by sprinkling in the propoer expletives of tautologies, without adding or an ideaso to enfeeble and confound that admirable performance composition, that the veriest drudge in an a lawyer's office might mistake it for his own.
It was an a thought of the Alchymists a set of men who not to be accused [(to whom no of industry could be on the of their researches could be objected)] to attempt the degradation of that metal which was the grand object of their researches as a [help means of throwing some light uponto the knowledge of] its composition. And in the a same view it is, that a an excellent celebrated philosopher of a neighbouring nation has pro-posed an Autophilosophical as a work that might have its use.
The mode of instruction is to propose models of excellence for imitation, [another and sometimes not less useful one is to exhibit] models of de-
pravity for avoidance.
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composition. prelud. miscell. degradation immensity. perorat. complacens |
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volume degradation |
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jeremy bentham |
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