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With respect to my own labours, Whatever else is wanting, two things I can
affirm have not been wanting, industry sollicitude
and unreserve. plaindealing. Sollicitude to
discover wht [I thought] it might be of use
to know, plaindealing to declare it.
Tis not this or that class of man
much less this or that individual I have studied
to please, but the public at large: great body of the public: and: so
to please, as may be done by administering the application applying
not of flattery to their affections, but of instruction
as far, as any diligence can do it
to their understanding.
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Let them but learn to think for themselves, and be sure
they do so, I had almost said, I care
not whether with me, or against me.
Wh. Bull. This .... beast, originally who, imported into there from his native
country from France, originally of French extraction seems, contrary to what is
the case with most animals to have improved gatherd
his spirit spirits by change emigration of climate, has
somehow or other between umbrage at the our Professor's
scarlet robes, and has made some severe home
pushes at him in several places. has accordingly fallen upon him very severely, & as to have made the light shine through him
Definitions here given. The reader is not to expect to see those principles Definition
supported by authorities. The writers we have
seen hitherto Coke Hale, Hawkins, Wood:
the list ending with our Author, very good Lawyers
were as times went, have been very poor philosophers. Locke
[the Father of intellectual science] had not yet spoke to them, or had spoken
to them in vain. It is not much wonder if he should have spoken to them in vain. Few works shew greater marks of the want of these precautions; than his own on Government. They were content, as
most men are content to ring the changes
upon the words they have been used to,
without knowing what they meant by them.
Nothing has been, nothing will be, nothing
ever can be done on the subject of Law
that deserves the name of Science, till that
universal precept of Locke, enforced, exemplified,
and particularly applied to the moral
branch of science by Helvetius be steadily pursued, "define
"your words". It is true, it is not for
every man in matters of Jurispr moral science to define
his words. It is what A little understanding
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