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Composition.
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nothing to call off the thought of that of those accessory considerations which lead to the ..... of the composer has little and occasion to say to the reader, "think of me". The best stile for of Legislation would be that, in which all
thought in the reader of the composer was lost should be in attention to the subjects
The to practisers of the modern art of composition, by the
continual torture in which they keep the apprehension, to are
sufficient means to give advertisement of his existence
takes care not to be forgotten.
Nothing whereby the attention to the work should be interrupted
by any consideration of the author.
PERSPICUITY
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Perspicuity is as it were a branch of Notoriety: for it
is not the being acquainted with the sounds that
renders the law known, but the being possessed of the
Ideas which those sounds are meant to represent.
However as these 2 sorts of knowledge are in themselves
distinct, & [attainable by different means] are acquire a
quite different set of expedients to communicate them, it
will be proper enough and even necessary to give them
a separate consideration.
The first is compassable by a set of expedients, which
by contrast in comparison with the others more requisite for may be termed mechanical.
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Hind vox docta x aliud technica. The4 case5 is3 very1 different2 between a word, which is
obscure by reason if it's technicality, and which an illiterate man
must go to a Lawyer to [have] explained: know the meaning of and one which is
so & only on account of it's having a Greek or Latin origin,
& which the Parson Clergyman of his Parish, or any other person
of tolerable education can explain.
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of laws in general |
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composition general idea of the legislve style |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with vryheyt motif]]] |
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