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When the words are ill arranged, the mischief is the conveying from —
them no clear Idea, or the getting not conveying a clear idea but with difficulty,
or the conveying at last a wrong one - when they are well
arranged but ill chosen, it is presenting at once a wrong one.
trammels of Official pedantry quaintness It should not be a bugbear to him: he should love it as the
strong-hold of Innocence as well as not only fear it as the scourge of guilt.

He should reverence it, not with that indiscriminate universal terror
that increasing universal suspicion.

Where it should be feared terrible, it should be so in virtue of its
spirit, which while it speaks terror to the unjust, speaks comfort to
the just: not in virtue of it's Letter which by the mysterious
& affected form which it must have be invested with to have any —
separate effect becomes alike suspected & odious to all.

"It" should be used, & not "the same": not because the first is intrinsically preferable to the second: but merely because the use of it happens to be the most frequent: Men - should be encouraged to draw near and listen to her voice: which they will not do, when it is harsh and barbarous.not more to the unjust to whomm she would speak terror than to the just to whom she would speak peace
To deviate from this laborious "ignoratis Juris potius qium scientia" how much better soever the ends of the Statutes might be provided for by such deviation that by adherence, would be deemed a mark of inexperience of incapacity: and were we to imagine that some Layman by some extraordinary felicity of composition had given to his draught such a degree of perfection as to have provided for those ends, to the fullest possible extent, it would still be thought necessary that it should pays thro' the hands of some Lawyer, not only for the sake of ensuring it's amplitude and precision it's expressing in terms not liable to misconception all that is meant of all that it ought to measure (purposes for which the inpectionit is very rare that of men the profession can ever be prudently dispensed with) but that he may bedvien it out after his fancy from the Wardrobe of fashionable new lives & put it as the Phrase is into legal Language.with flounces & furbelows from the Statue Wardrobe
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Parallel to this is the usage we so frequently read of in the account of uncivilized nations among whom such is the etiquette of the Court that is a Female to be dressed with propriety must load her legs with rings of Metal one above another till the scarce can waddle: attired in the serviceable simplicity of Nature she would only be regarded with contempt. It must be acknowledged that in this matter it is often the Laity, corrupted as their ears are by who are [more] immediately in fault: who observing visibility to be, inpractice this perpetual accompaniment to legal precision, learn to consider it as being so in the nature of thingsto blame chargeable with the increase of these abuses: a prejudice which one easily see it is no business of men of Laws to added textsole proficient in that.... jargon combat. The saviour of the Disk; where they should sound as from the Throne something whereby it shall be distinguishedIf it be thought necessary to give some distinction from common Speechordinary language, there is a way by a certain structure of the sentence of giving it a solemnity of elevation after the fashion of those passages which are so often to be met with in our translation of the Sacred writings, not bought at the expence of simplicity & consciences. It is with immaterial objects as with material: a certain degree of indistinctness and obscurity is most consment to the sublime. The cautious is penetrating anxiety descending to the minutest explanations & limitations, stopping up with microscopic precision very inlet to abuse, which forms the characteristics the Legislation of this Country oppose itselfmay be thought to indeed in some degree to the Majesty of distile, which seeks to display itself & is best exemplified in general & unrestricted aphorisms.marginal note text

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	composit. stat. singly - as a discourse. general idea
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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