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T. A. Prelud.

XV

The use [office] this publication I have solicited of the Act is to furnish [exhibit
a number of examples, ready to cite
upon occasion & the rules & general observations
[& terms of nomenclature] that are introduced,
are introduced only to render make them
examples [intelligible, & to shew to what use
they will be applied were chosen] and the purpose for
which they are chosen have been understood.

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Till a man can make sure that such &
such a part only belong[s] to him, he is
saddled with the whole.

Now the only way to make sure of this, if
it can be done then, is to read it through.
Of what ever bulk that part of the Law is to
a as it were of a bulk, <add>the whole law is to him is but</add> & nothing more [no greater]
As if an act consist of 20 pages an an equal
than of which concerns ten different persons:
in point of utility to every one it is 20 pages: but in
point of position to each of them it is but 2.

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A Topic Point that runs through the whole Law as in a
manner it were cannot be treated upon the occasion
of a single without signal disadvantage
exposed to a different decision, according as it falls
into the hands of the different decisions that form
themselves in such a numerous & difficult
assembly itself of persons respectively attached to
different branches of the System, it is by this
means exposed to perpetual recollection, & the
Law incurs the reproach of making the same
thing right & wrong at the same time. under the same circumstances.

It is of importance therefore on account of
consistency, independently that of of
that the same matter, [by being considered &
determined once for all] [receive throughout
the same decision] be settled throughout in the
same manner way.

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Those who are concerned as being --- by the parts: & as having the superintendence of the whole.

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When once the mold mould is finished to satisfaction is properly prepared
the casting of the several is a
matter of care & expedition:

The who works after such a plan has been
out to him

Nor the same advantage in point of care
of celerity & of accuracy of execution as
he who produces casts a medal has by casting over him who who from the mould
is to execute it originally by the graver

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If my plan method of [Legislative] composition be
a proper good be worth having one, there cannot be a more effectual
way of teaching it.

It is like those examples which are to be met
with in certain Grammars, where a passage
of some author writer in the language to be taught is
taken of the words being thrown out of their The task of the teacher is to make the disorderthereby have to recify it.
order and their regimen it is the business of
the Scholar to restore them

All the difference is, that then the disorder
is to be made created produced, then it resists already to one's hands.

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It is true that
proves no farther than against that
one: all that I have can do with respect
to other Statutes is to appeal to those who
are conversant in them whether

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Quare vetus 3 To have changed it for the new one would
have encreased my labour with by almost
one half, without any greater certainty
of the permanency of the subject matter of it
[Besides that] there would have been something
invidious in positioning the edge of
criticism supposing it just against a composition on which
so many marks of such uncommon industry
& attention had been so recently displayed.

brought at length into port after so much industry & dexterity displayed and the long struggle with the difficulties of the subject upon the edge of .

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