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We would almost imagine that Swift had our
method of Statute making in view, when he when he introduces his hero to the art writing of philosophers whose of Laputa. There is an ingenious custom in Laputa — at least there was when Capital Gulliver was on his visit to that country
brings his hero to a place where Among these injurious personages the method
of conversation is to substitute the things themselves
in the room of the vocal signs commonly
used to represent them: and each person going out about
his concerns with his budget of ideas upon his back:
If he has occasion to talk with his Butler
about a leg of mutton, he has nothing to do but
to produce another leg of Mutton wh with which
he takes care to come provided himself for the purpose.

Sun or Moon one might as well like abolishing pronouns and conjunctions copulative Thus it is with our Statute-makers. If in
making one Statute a man has occasion to
speak of a clause of another Statute, what
does he? call it by it's title? no — for it has
no title describe it? no. for it is indescribable. he sets down very coolly: he takes pen Ink and paper, & he repeats it very exactly copies it from the the beginning
to the to the end. This I mean is the way when a man piques
himself upon being exact exactness. In common uses
he has nothing left for it but to say, that speak of what
was done, whatever it was, as having been done


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Identifier: | JB/070/109/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

070

Main Headings

of laws in general

Folio number

109

Info in main headings field

composition stat interlacement by recital

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23224

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