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was the occasion, and what can be the use, of the ensuing <lb/> sheets? Why publish them? <hi rend="superscript">-</hi> I answer <hi rend="superscript">-</hi> because the Bill <lb/>itself is in fact <hi rend="underline">not</hi> published: <hi rend="superscript">[a}</hi> because were it pub- <lb/> -lished, the contents of it are not quite so perspicuous as <lb/> I imagined they might be made: because I hoped to be <lb/> a means in some degree of forwarding the good purposes <lb/> of it, by stating to the public more in detail than it <lb/> would have been competent/compitent either to the text or to the <lb/> preface to have done, the reasons on which the leading provisions in it seem'd to be grounded, and by sug-<lb/> -gesting a few hints in the way of connection or addition. <lb/> "Not quite so perspicuous as it might be made?"<lb/> (I think I hear somebody exclaiming) "what Act | was the occasion, and what can be the use, of the ensuing <lb/> sheets? Why publish them? <hi rend="superscript">-</hi> I answer <hi rend="superscript">-</hi> because the Bill <lb/>itself is in fact <hi rend="underline">not</hi> published: <hi rend="superscript">[a}</hi> because were it pub- <lb/> -lished, the contents of it are not quite so perspicuous as <lb/> I imagined they might be made: because I hoped to be <lb/> a means in some degree of forwarding the good purposes <lb/> of it, by stating to the public more in detail than it <lb/> would have been competent/compitent either to the text or to the <lb/> preface to have done, the reasons on which the leading <lb/> provisions in it seem'd to be grounded, and by sug-<lb/> -gesting a few hints in the way of connection or addition. <lb/> "Not quite so perspicuous as it might be made?"<lb/> (I think I hear somebody exclaiming) "what Act of <lb/> " Parliament was ever more so?" — None I must con-<lb/> -fess that I can think of: but this affords me no <lb/> reason for retracting. The Legislation one would indeed <lb/> naturally supposed might ( and if he might he <del>ought</del> should<lb/> speak his own meaning so plainly that no one could <lb/> speak it plainer; so concisely, that no one could render <lb/> his expression more concise; in such a method, (both <lb/> as to matter & form) that no one could cast it into a letter/better/bitter. He might one should think: for what should <lb/> | ||
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Preface.
was the occasion, and what can be the use, of the ensuing
sheets? Why publish them? - I answer - because the Bill
itself is in fact not published: [a} because were it pub-
-lished, the contents of it are not quite so perspicuous as
I imagined they might be made: because I hoped to be
a means in some degree of forwarding the good purposes
of it, by stating to the public more in detail than it
would have been competent/compitent either to the text or to the
preface to have done, the reasons on which the leading
provisions in it seem'd to be grounded, and by sug-
-gesting a few hints in the way of connection or addition.
"Not quite so perspicuous as it might be made?"
(I think I hear somebody exclaiming) "what Act of
" Parliament was ever more so?" — None I must con-
-fess that I can think of: but this affords me no
reason for retracting. The Legislation one would indeed
naturally supposed might ( and if he might he ought should
speak his own meaning so plainly that no one could
speak it plainer; so concisely, that no one could render
his expression more concise; in such a method, (both
as to matter & form) that no one could cast it into a letter/better/bitter. He might one should think: for what should
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