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VOLUMINOUSNESS. Homoionymics.
It is a habit said to be not uncommon with the in Holland
Dutch, A Dutchman when he has fouled his under-garment it is said, will covers it with instead of changing it for a clean one. when a shirt is foul, not to change it for
another, but to clap a clean one on over it, & so on
to the number of perhaps half a dozen. What is
done by a Dutchman will thus do on purpose, I have heard reported has been said of
to be have been done by a celebrated Lawyer to be done through inattention.
inadvertence A custom, into which a distinguished Lawyer of our own country is said to been sometimes betrayd by inadvertence.
Not less slovenly is the practise This Dutchman or this Lawyer, I know not am knowing
well which, is the emblem of the Legislature. distinguished by his singularities among his friends, as he is by for his Talents in by the public, v. 9 Geo 2. 30 & 29 G. 2. 17.
Whether it be of design purpose, or whether it be inattention,
sure I am for every topic almost furnishes an example that this is exactly this manner
in which it is that Statutes are composed.
as if the security for the Laws observance was in proportion
to the paper blotted
with some inconsiderable trifling variation just sufficient
to destroy change the identity & perplex the meaning. epidemical rage of
as if modern provisions, like the Charters of Liberty
were reduced to such information in the time of Barbarism, Barbarous ages stood in need acquired fresh strength from by
every multiplied repetitions. for their security depended for the continuance of its validity upon multiplied repetitions.
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compos. stat. one with another - homoionomiae emblem - dutchman & his shirts bacon's committee of revision superseded by unity |
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voluminousness |
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