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Barrington:
an Antidote

The situation of our youth would have been too
much to be pitied, had it not been followed at
no very long interval by a powerful antidote

counterpoise -
in the valuable work known by the title of "Observations on the ancient Statutes".
Not that

nothing less than
declared, or even
Not intentional
nor declared

there was no other opposition that what candour
simplicity and honest freedom in alliance with a sound
judgment on one side would unavoidably produce
with prejudices & partialities and superstitions
and local1 attachments on the other, without any
corporate-
purpose of the last of the two writers.

Nor perfect
from the plan of
it

The reflections in which needed contained the .... c
virtue , thinly too thinly sown scatter'd the here and there in a rich
mass of various erudition, act from that circumstance
to a disadvantage against assemblage
of principles, collected into a body,
and descend into something that has the appearance
of a system.

The mixture of foreign and antiquated languages , could not which [contributed
at the same time while
that it
to] diversify the entertainment of the learned
reader, would necessarily rebuter of readers
of the less instructed class, among whom might
be those many to by whom the benefit of the moral &
political+ part would be most necessary needful wanted.

+ X Philological
instruction would turn
to most account
would be best bestow'd
most profitably bestowd.

Very different is the doctrine of the other work.

everything is perfect

The picture, except in a few here and there a streak spot
which serves only to add [the charge dispraise of] inconsistency
to [that of] error, is for the most part the reverse.

Every thing is perfect in comparison of what any
one be he who he will or be it what it will
can have to suggest to make it better: every thing
is degenerated, in comparison of what it was in
those heroic times, which are to be [sought for] pursued in
past time retrogression, and which fly [from you] as you pursue

In the beginning, no body indeed knows when,
but however in the beginning, this Island was
peopled inhabited cultivated by a people virtuous, simple, religious
& consequently therefore happy.[+] Their Laws were like
themselves

[+] to a degree of which
the degenerate example
of present times can
afford us no idea —
by wheeling backwards

that is at any time
but that which any
one should assign
in short at any time
but that which a
man would fix upon.

BLACKSTONE X BARRINGTON.
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