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<p>To have followed the dictates of simple understanding <add>common sense<unclear>questionable reading</unclear></add> and ordinary <gap/> in the description of it<lb/> would have been at least highly dangerous if not fatal to the meaning <add>efficacy</add><lb/> </p> <p>To "suffer death by hanging" would indeed to men of ordinary intellects seem to <unclear>impart</unclear></p> that . man was to be <add>to lose his life & lose it in this way</add> hanged and to lose his life by it: but lawyers know that it means <add><sic>its'</sic> meaning is</add> very different<lb/> - <gap/> different & <gap/> complex, to<lb/> be delineated in <add>under</add> life than <gap/><lb/> <gap/> indeed <gap/> it to be <gap/><lb/> <p>Such of my readers <gap/> know well enough that this is the case <gap/><lb/> would take up so much time to explain it to those who <del>have</del> <add>are</add> not. All I can do for them at present is to refer them to the books mentioned in the margin<lb/> I must hasten</p> | <p>To have followed the dictates of simple understanding <add>common sense<unclear>questionable reading</unclear></add> and ordinary <gap/> in the description of it<lb/> would have been at least highly dangerous if not fatal to the meaning <add>efficacy</add><lb/> </p> <p>To "suffer death by hanging" would indeed to men of ordinary intellects seem to <unclear>impart</unclear></p> that . man was to be<lb/> <add>to lose his life & lose it in this way</add> hanged and to lose his life by it: but lawyers know that it means <add><sic>its'</sic> meaning is</add> very different<lb/> - <gap/> different & <gap/> complex, to<lb/> be delineated in <add>under</add> life than <gap/><lb/> <gap/> indeed <gap/> it to be <gap/><lb/> <p>Such of my readers <gap/> know well enough that this is the case <gap/><lb/> would take up so much time to explain it to those who <del>have</del> <add>are</add> not. All I can do for them at present is to refer them to the books mentioned in the margin<lb/> I must hasten from a <gap/> pregnant with accordance of <gap/> of object <gap/><lb/> which if I were <gap/> I <gap/> when to quit: <gap/> which had much better be <gap/><lb/> than not <gap/> with that <gap/> which the importance of <gap/></p> | ||
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<p>This is one of those subjects on which it is better to say nothing than to say too little:<lb/> <gap/> occasion, it may be <gap/> to say what <gap/> will think too much<lb/> must however avoid suggesting <gap/>, <add>it as an</add></p> whether there be any reason to think that<lb/> <add>the answer to which</add> which was <gap/> was by design. | |||
To have followed the dictates of simple understanding common sensequestionable reading and ordinary in the description of it
would have been at least highly dangerous if not fatal to the meaning efficacy
To "suffer death by hanging" would indeed to men of ordinary intellects seem to impart
that . man was to be
to lose his life & lose it in this way hanged and to lose his life by it: but lawyers know that it means its' meaning is very different
- different & complex, to
be delineated in under life than
indeed it to be
Such of my readers know well enough that this is the case
would take up so much time to explain it to those who have are not. All I can do for them at present is to refer them to the books mentioned in the margin
I must hasten from a pregnant with accordance of of object
which if I were I when to quit: which had much better be
than not with that which the importance of
paragraph
This is one of those subjects on which it is better to say nothing than to say too little:
occasion, it may be to say what will think too much
must however avoid suggesting , it as an
whether there be any reason to think that
the answer to which which was was by design.
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