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CERTAINTY. Form of Com . Law. Inconvens. of. 2
No quantity article of positive knowledge [+] is therefore of
any avail without an immense indefinite & often an immense quantity of
negative knowledge of which So <add> much as is attainable</add> lies scatter'd here & there
in a thousand volumes , & of which a large
portion is always absolutely out of reach : but
of which the hand of Legislature by one of the
simplest movements imaginable is able in an instant can cast into
men's bosoms . in an instant.
Let a man , (to go no higher) open a book of
reports of the time of Elizabeth (to go no higher) or James or
Charles - He shall there see for example a point of Law
laid down in the clearest terms — not any all
the which ever enter'd into the hand of
man can enable him to pronounce from the
inspection of that alone , whether it be of any
authority at this day — Since there are undoubtedly
in that book (at least for any thing
that any one can tell to the contrary) that have
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authority; he can not therefore be safe in enconcluding
that this in question has none not — others
there are ,
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