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render a composition perfect.</p><pb/> | render a composition perfect.</p><pb/> | ||
Many elaborate & well imagined specimens of this<lb/> | <p>Many elaborate & well imagined specimens of this<lb/> | ||
kind are to be found <add>met with</add> in the Statute Book; <note>furnishes many specimens</note> | kind are to be found <add>met with</add> in the Statute Book; <note>furnishes many specimens</note> | ||
The<lb/> | The<lb/> | ||
Statute | <add>appendix to the</add> Statute immediately preceding that under consideration<lb/> | ||
<hi rend='underline'>may be d</hi>eemed <add>furnishes 3 <gap/> <add>each</add> which may be <unclear>termed</unclear></add> master pieces: in this <unclear>species</unclear> of composition.</p><pb/> | |||
<p>Tis <sic>encreasing</sic> the <sic>Burthen</sic> instead of lessening it,<lb/> | |||
if the knowledge of what is abrogated is <add>be</add> made <add><unclear>contained</unclear></add><lb/> | |||
necessary to the understanding of what is in force.</p><pb/> | |||
<p>I know, that nothing can be more <add><gap/></add> disgusting<lb/> | |||
than the <unclear>minutiae</unclear> of verbal <unclear>critisism</unclear>. but,</p><pb/> | |||
<p><note>CONCLUSION</note> Thus have I endeavoured to <sic>shew</sic> <add>prove</add>, by an investigation<lb/> | |||
of which the tedium <add>prolixity</add> & minuteness <add>of which</add>,<lb/> | |||
can only be apologized <add><gap/></add> <del>for</del> by the importance<lb/> | |||
of the end, <note>extent & competence of the result</note> <add>it has in view <add><gap/> at</add></add> [that what is most simple, is<lb/> | |||
<add>at the same time</add> most efficacious:] that the <del><sic>stile</sic></del> of legislative composition<lb/> | |||
<del><unclear>gives no</unclear></del> <add>far from <unclear>deriving</unclear> any</add> advantages from those peculiarities<lb/> | |||
whereby it is distinguished from ordinary<lb/> | |||
discourse derives many striking disadvantages -<lb/> | |||
that these peculiarities scarce <add>serve less</add> frustrate the ends to<lb/> | |||
which they seem more <del>pos</del> <add>especially</add> to be directed, than<lb/> | |||
<add>any of</add> those other ends which [a legislator ought to have<lb/> | |||
in view] must concur in order to give efficacy<lb/> | |||
to a Law</p> | |||
<p>Whether I may venture to write Q.E.D.<lb/> | |||
under any of these propositions, it is now for<lb/> | |||
the reader to pronounce <add>determine.</add></p><pb/> | |||
<p>It is good, that litigation have a certain end; but<lb/> | |||
it is still better, that it never have a beginning.</p><pb/> | |||
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T. . Prelude XIII
A writer may be engaged in a tract disquisition <add></add> so dry & barren gloomy <add>dismal</add>, may
be pardoned any little excursions he may take to refresh like a <add></add>
himself little refreshment, tho' it were at from the cup of ,
who without which he together with and those patient persons
he draws after him can persuade to follow him must run the risk to perish with fatigue.
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Those methods of elucidation which may be stiled
mechanical with a view to their application not to their invention where united to those which more immediately
render a composition perfect.
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Many elaborate & well imagined specimens of this
kind are to be found met with in the Statute Book; furnishes many specimens
The
appendix to the Statute immediately preceding that under consideration
may be deemed furnishes 3 <add>each which may be termed</add> master pieces: in this species of composition.
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Tis encreasing the Burthen instead of lessening it,
if the knowledge of what is abrogated is be made contained
necessary to the understanding of what is in force.
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I know, that nothing can be more disgusting
than the minutiae of verbal critisism. but,
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CONCLUSION Thus have I endeavoured to shew prove, by an investigation
of which the tedium prolixity & minuteness of which,
can only be apologized for by the importance
of the end, extent & competence of the result it has in view <add> at</add> [that what is most simple, is
at the same time most efficacious:] that the stile of legislative composition
gives no far from deriving any advantages from those peculiarities
whereby it is distinguished from ordinary
discourse derives many striking disadvantages -
that these peculiarities scarce serve less frustrate the ends to
which they seem more pos especially to be directed, than
any of those other ends which [a legislator ought to have
in view] must concur in order to give efficacy
to a Law
Whether I may venture to write Q.E.D.
under any of these propositions, it is now for
the reader to pronounce determine.
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It is good, that litigation have a certain end; but
it is still better, that it never have a beginning.
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