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1<lb/><head>Panopticon Bill.</head> Introductory Obser<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">ons</hi><p>The texture of this Bill may perhaps be observed to be in some respects not altogether<lb/>of a piece with the patterns in common use.</p><p>The difference, if it should be found to consist in nothing but the rendering the matter<lb/>so much the easier to refer to, the expression so much the more intelligible, unambiguous & comprehensive,<lb/>as well as concise, so much the better adapted, in a word, to all the ends of language,<lb/>will I hope not be deemed an objection, at least not a conclusive one: if it should, I would<lb/>undertake if required, arduous as the task may be, to dress it up in the most prevailing <sic>stile</sic>:<lb/>and I would beg to be allowed to do so, rather than that that part of a business in which<lb/>I am so nearly concerned should pass into other hands: having had such manifold occasion<lb/>to observe that the customary superfluities are commonly bought at the expence not only of<lb/>conciseness & apprehensibility, but (strange as it may seem) even of comprehensiveness &<lb/>precision.<hi rend="superscript">//</hi></p><p> | 1<lb/><head>Panopticon Bill.</head> Introductory Obser<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">ons</hi><p>The texture of this Bill may perhaps be observed to be in some respects not altogether<lb/>of a piece with the patterns in common use.</p><p>The difference, if it should be found to consist in nothing but the rendering the matter<lb/>so much the easier to refer to, the expression so much the more intelligible, unambiguous & comprehensive,<lb/>as well as concise, so much the better adapted, in a word, to all the ends of language,<lb/>will I hope not be deemed an objection, at least not a conclusive one: if it should, I would<lb/>undertake if required, arduous as the task may be, to dress it up in the most prevailing <sic>stile</sic>:<lb/>and I would beg to be allowed to do so, rather than that that part of a business in which<lb/>I am so nearly concerned should pass into other hands: having had such manifold occasion<lb/>to observe that the customary superfluities are commonly bought at the expence not only of<lb/>conciseness & apprehensibility, but (strange as it may seem) even of comprehensiveness &<lb/>precision.<hi rend="superscript">//</hi></p><p>What I have saved in <hi rend="underline">pleonasms</hi>, I have spent in <hi rend="underline">reasons</hi>: which, as the practice is<lb/>not without precedent, will I hope, as far as the indulgence is thought reasonable, be preserved.<lb/>According to an established rule of <hi rend="underline">interpretation</hi>, or as Lawyers call it, <hi rend="underline">construction</hi>, as often as<lb/>a Preamble happens to contain matter from whence any thing in the shape of a reason seems<lb/>capable of being extracted, that reason is laid hold of, and made the most of. Reasons<lb/>being therefore always looked out for in Parliamentary compositions, and by Lawyers, I hope<lb/>it will not be thought either unparliamentary or unlawyerlike to give them: especially so long as<lb/>they take up no more than a small part of the room made by the throwing out of a species<lb/>of matter which is worse than useless.</p> | ||
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Panopticon Bill. Introductory Obser<hi rend="superscript">ons
The texture of this Bill may perhaps be observed to be in some respects not altogether
of a piece with the patterns in common use.
The difference, if it should be found to consist in nothing but the rendering the matter
so much the easier to refer to, the expression so much the more intelligible, unambiguous & comprehensive,
as well as concise, so much the better adapted, in a word, to all the ends of language,
will I hope not be deemed an objection, at least not a conclusive one: if it should, I would
undertake if required, arduous as the task may be, to dress it up in the most prevailing stile:
and I would beg to be allowed to do so, rather than that that part of a business in which
I am so nearly concerned should pass into other hands: having had such manifold occasion
to observe that the customary superfluities are commonly bought at the expence not only of
conciseness & apprehensibility, but (strange as it may seem) even of comprehensiveness &
precision.//
What I have saved in pleonasms, I have spent in reasons: which, as the practice is
not without precedent, will I hope, as far as the indulgence is thought reasonable, be preserved.
According to an established rule of interpretation, or as Lawyers call it, construction, as often as
a Preamble happens to contain matter from whence any thing in the shape of a reason seems
capable of being extracted, that reason is laid hold of, and made the most of. Reasons
being therefore always looked out for in Parliamentary compositions, and by Lawyers, I hope
it will not be thought either unparliamentary or unlawyerlike to give them: especially so long as
they take up no more than a small part of the room made by the throwing out of a species
of matter which is worse than useless.
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