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Meanwhile {vitious} as is the present stile of composition
Meanwhile {vitious} as is the present stile of composition
 
in opposition contrary to the national course of Sciences whose basis is experience  
in opposition contrary to the national course of Sciences whose basis is experience
 
on the score of it’s { -roliocity} let us beware how we fall into the prejudice of those, who expecting to <hi rend='superscript'>meet</hi> find that excellence
on the score of it’s { -roliocity} let us beware how we fall into the prejudice of those, who expecting to <hi rend='superscript'>meet</hi> find that excellence
which has not appeared as yet by searching backwards
which has not appeared as yet by searching backwards
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with them  on one hand, nor naked of them on the other.
with them  on one hand, nor naked of them on the other.


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Our idea of perfection, to be <hi rend='superscript'>a</hi> legitimate one, must be formed
Our idea of perfection, to be <hi rend='superscript'>a</hi> legitimate one, must be formed
by abstraction of the views of the [present] System which
by abstraction of the views of the [present] System which
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That the vulgar (and there are few that are not in this respect the vulgar) may nod their heads and <del>may</del> <hi rend='superscript'>pay</hi> say he has got the lingo as well as the best of them.  
That the vulgar (and there are few that are not in this respect the vulgar) may nod their heads and <del>may</del> <hi rend='superscript'>pay</hi> say he has got the lingo as well as the best of them.  


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Is <hi rend='superscript'>he</hi> a veteran in the profefsion?  he goes on with it because it is familiar to him: he is used to it, he has got the habit of it. Is he out of the profefsion, or young in it? he takes it up <hi rend='superscript'>make display of his dexterity</hi> to show his expertnefs.  Few indeed these are, who as far as it can be done by this, fail of making out their little to the reputation of able draught men: as justly as the equally vain and obseqeous personages who by feigning themselves partakers in the unformities of their Sovereign, thought to become partakers in his glory. as if the same simplicity of language, which is the Parent of precision in all the Sciences, were <hi rend='superscript'>in</hi> this alone the destroyer.   
Is <hi rend='superscript'>he</hi> a veteran in the profefsion?  he goes on with it because it is familiar to him: he is used to it, he has got the habit of it. Is he out of the profefsion, or young in it? he takes it up <hi rend='superscript'>make display of his dexterity</hi> to show his expertnefs.  Few indeed these are, who as far as it can be done by this, fail of making out their little to the reputation of able draught men: as justly as the equally vain and obseqeous personages who by feigning themselves partakers in the unformities of their Sovereign, thought to become partakers in his glory. as if the same simplicity of language, which is the Parent of precision in all the Sciences, were <hi rend='superscript'>in</hi> this alone the destroyer.   


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The very neck of Alexander is easier copied than his Heroism.
The very neck of Alexander is easier copied than his Heroism.
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Box 1 (top left box)
Meanwhile {vitious} as is the present stile of composition in opposition contrary to the national course of Sciences whose basis is experience on the score of it’s { -roliocity} let us beware how we fall into the prejudice of those, who expecting to meet find that excellence which has not appeared as yet by searching backwards

manifested shown itself.

would send us to the School of Barbarism for the models of inferring at once their excellence of their { } of perfection [let us consider rather that] of if the 2 grand great points Statutes from their Shortness. of [the] Legislative composition style, Brevity & Comprehension, “ “ But Perspecuity a 3 Brevity is but one: that the Brevity which + + which the Law demand, [is the object of the Legislator’s study] is not absolute, but proportional a Brevity which requires causes not simply that the number of words be few, but that it be in a small ratio to that of the Ideas: that words(?) not by defaleation {omifsion}, but by comprehension.

That originates not from the {pen way} of the imagination conception but from his industy not from the {narrowness} but from the comprehension of his Views. A Brevity pregnant not {banin} That the stile be well clad with words, neither {smathi..} with them on one hand, nor naked of them on the other.

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Our idea of perfection, to be a legitimate one, must be formed by abstraction of the views of the [present] System which we see, not of views and it’s excellences together. Those gloomy & false-witted speculator’s who brood over look back with dispondence to their ancestors instead of looking forward with hope to their posterity. Compare the {lubsto..tive} clauses to be general with troops few & ill chosen that would often instead {ennoying} their enimies,recoil upon their friend. The arts of discourse speech is Grammar is fabricated perfected not first from rule, but from much which has been written without rule. That abundance of materials proceeds accuracy of disposition {compilament}.


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Style … 3_2
That the vulgar (and there are few that are not in this respect the vulgar) may nod their heads and may pay say he has got the lingo as well as the best of them.

Top Right Box
Is he a veteran in the profefsion? he goes on with it because it is familiar to him: he is used to it, he has got the habit of it. Is he out of the profefsion, or young in it? he takes it up make display of his dexterity to show his expertnefs. Few indeed these are, who as far as it can be done by this, fail of making out their little to the reputation of able draught men: as justly as the equally vain and obseqeous personages who by feigning themselves partakers in the unformities of their Sovereign, thought to become partakers in his glory. as if the same simplicity of language, which is the Parent of precision in all the Sciences, were in this alone the destroyer.

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The very neck of Alexander is easier copied than his Heroism.




Identifier: | JB/070/063/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

070

Main Headings

of laws in general

Folio number

063

Info in main headings field

compos. stat. singly - as a discourse - general idea

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23178

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