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words as can <hi rend='superscript'><add>are</add></hi> be of any use; that Ideas are regularly introduced<lb/> | words as can <hi rend='superscript'><add>are</add></hi> be of any use; that Ideas are regularly introduced<lb/> | ||
for which there is no place, and that if for every three words<lb/> | for which there is no place, and that if for every three words<lb/> | ||
there be given <hi rend='superscript'><add>one</add></hi> an Idea it is good measure.<lb/ | there be given <hi rend='superscript'><add>one</add></hi> an Idea it is good measure.<lb/> | ||
Many clauses may be compared to [resemble] those <add>foetus's</add> which are<lb/> | Many clauses may be compared to [resemble] those <add>foetus's</add> which are<lb/> | ||
sometimes seen to come into the world with a vast mass of fungous<lb/> | sometimes seen to come into the world with a vast mass of fungous<lb/> excrescence where one expects a Brain.<lb/> | ||
excrescence where one expects a Brain.<lb/ | |||
It is known [in general] that how the compilers of our Statute Laws
are immemorial possession of giving number of times as many
words as can are be of any use; that Ideas are regularly introduced
for which there is no place, and that if for every three words
there be given one an Idea it is good measure.
Many clauses may be compared to [resemble] those foetus's which are
sometimes seen to come into the world with a vast mass of fungous
excrescence where one expects a Brain.
