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In this dramatic age might not the recrimination scene
in Telemachus be re-exhibited in the Island of New South Wales,
between this man of all-work and his guardian superior in
office and in eloquence ? — got up as near as may be as it was
at the first acting in the desolate island its prototype when
performed by the discarded Ministers of the good Idomeneus ?
exhibited and with like satisfaction as well as instruction to the
lovers of practical as well as poetic justice ? —
No my Lord : the improved and ever alike improving
Colony , would not be quite so useless as it is if a pair of Right
Honourable Scholars , so well read in the red book of power, were
exported to it , and , with the black letter book of experience
upon their backs , sent there to learn as well as to teach a lesson
which hitherto they have been so much more engaged in teaching
than in learning — the nature , use, and value of justice . —
But why (I hear Your Lordship say) all these idle allusions?
romance in so grave and practical a subject! fiction — and that
not legal fiction — in an argument on a question of law! —
My Lord , there are uses in fiction :
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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303 |
n. s. wales |
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002 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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john herbert koe |
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37836 |
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