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CERTAINTY Form of Comm. Law.
The Common Law is a vast region
full of Gulphs , which like that of ,
close not but by the swallowing up of some
human Victim : Gulphs , which it is [even then]
it is has been a policy doubtless from wise & well-considerd
reasons , by Judges the greatest that have existed
but which perhaps may have been or sometimes
rather too rigorously adhered to , never to close
in a number beyond what is actually absolutely - necessary
at once : closed , say they , by a hasty
and side breath , they are closed but imperfectly
& superficially : tis then that by a delusive
shew of solidity the traveller instead of warning
him off they invite him upon a surface
which sinks as if it had never - - - — - —
under his feet. — Greater thus continues they
than at if it were as before in that man's fall
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