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<p>If the question were, whether upon the single account of their <lb/>being superfluous, to look no further, these forms should or <lb/>should not be abolished, whose soever voice were for the <lb/>affirmation, so should not be mine: <note>Therefore of <unclear><gap/></unclear> I am about to say is paradoxical perhaps in form but in substance just</note> what is ancient in — <lb/>matter of political usage, while it is equal to what is new, is <lb/>always better.</p> | |||
<p>But when it is considered, that the object which we have <lb/>been holding up to view is so important as that there cannot <lb/>well be another more so that [the sum of all] possible expedi-<lb/>ents together which we can employ for the attainment of it <lb/>can never be too much -- that among these expedients that <lb/>of the exclusion of these forms is one of the most obvious <lb/>& least exceptionable -- that the origin of them is such, as <lb/>that the having been taken up by accident, they have been <lb/>retained through habit without reflections: that the anti-<lb/>quity of them is such, as that there is both a time within <lb/>memory when [as yet] they were not: and another when being <lb/>inveterate they have been departed from, that upon their being made <lb/>to cease, except the consequences that are wished for of & except <lb/>the blotting of so much <unclear><gap/></unclear> paper all things will be precisely | |||
<lb/>in the same state they were in before. That neither privilege <lb/>nor Prerogative are the least concerned in them I am not with-<lb/>out hopes that a busy & enlightened nation & a Legislature — <lb/>the flower of that nation, may after due persuasion of the neces-<lb/>sity gird <del><gap/></del> up at length their <del><gap/></del> loins to this important wotk & <lb/>[resolve to] sacrifice prejudice on / at the altar of Utility.</p> | |||
<p>In some future age, looking back from the picture of | |||
<lb/>precision and simplicity that is before him, to the memori-<lb/>-als of these never ending janglings, may ask himself with <lb/>wonder whence could have arisen the matter of so many tri-<lb/>umphs: may put to himself with wonder a question which <del><gap/></del> seems <lb/>very different in point of <unclear>propriety</unclear> is supposed to have suggested <lb/>to a Roman. [Livy of the <unclear>Samnites</unclear> Hist. de la Facilite Publique]</p> | |||
<p>Compos. Stat. quâ Stat. Formal peculiarities to be retrenched <unclear><gap/></unclear> <unclear>Leroat</unclear> | |||
If the question were, whether upon the single account of their
being superfluous, to look no further, these forms should or
should not be abolished, whose soever voice were for the
affirmation, so should not be mine: Therefore of I am about to say is paradoxical perhaps in form but in substance just what is ancient in —
matter of political usage, while it is equal to what is new, is
always better.
But when it is considered, that the object which we have
been holding up to view is so important as that there cannot
well be another more so that [the sum of all] possible expedi-
ents together which we can employ for the attainment of it
can never be too much -- that among these expedients that
of the exclusion of these forms is one of the most obvious
& least exceptionable -- that the origin of them is such, as
that the having been taken up by accident, they have been
retained through habit without reflections: that the anti-
quity of them is such, as that there is both a time within
memory when [as yet] they were not: and another when being
inveterate they have been departed from, that upon their being made
to cease, except the consequences that are wished for of & except
the blotting of so much paper all things will be precisely
in the same state they were in before. That neither privilege
nor Prerogative are the least concerned in them I am not with-
out hopes that a busy & enlightened nation & a Legislature —
the flower of that nation, may after due persuasion of the neces-
sity gird up at length their loins to this important wotk &
[resolve to] sacrifice prejudice on / at the altar of Utility.
In some future age, looking back from the picture of
precision and simplicity that is before him, to the memori-
-als of these never ending janglings, may ask himself with
wonder whence could have arisen the matter of so many tri-
umphs: may put to himself with wonder a question which seems
very different in point of propriety is supposed to have suggested
to a Roman. [Livy of the Samnites Hist. de la Facilite Publique]
Compos. Stat. quâ Stat. Formal peculiarities to be retrenched Leroat
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