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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>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> 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 - so different & too complex, to<lb/> be delineated in <add>under</add> life than many <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/> | <p>This is one of those subjects on which it is better to say nothing than to say too little:<lb/> on some future <add><gap/></add> occasion, it may be <gap/> <gap/>to say what many will think too much<lb/>I cannot however avoid suggesting the question, <add>it as an</add> whether there be any reason to think that<lb/> <add>the <unclear>awful</unclear> to which</add> which was <gap/>repeated, 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 - so different & too complex, to
be delineated in under life than many
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:
on some future occasion, it may be to say what many will think too much
I cannot however avoid suggesting the question, it as an whether there be any reason to think that
the awful to which which was repeated, was by design.
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