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Classification. Law - Physic
[LEFT SIDE NOTE: Dis laurages i nhis Nosologia, Bacon in his Elements of Therapeutics Alecbride - Linnaeus]
When so much ingenuity has been expanded in giving a systematical arrangement to the discoveries of the Body Natural, why may not the same course be taken to advantage, with reference to the objects, may be termed accord- ing to the common Metaphor, the diseases of the Body Politic, or, with reference to the p/agents] actors, the diseases of the mind [?] ? And why [u/has] it not been taken?* [*: is a question that may be ready to recur to many]. how is it that in this & in so many other respects the p/Science?] Art oif Legislation should have [/stood] been so much life indebted to its Porfessors than the art of Leading? It is because [/neither] the Spirit of Civil/Evil? Tyranny, nor the spirit of Dogmatic Theology which which poisons every thing it touches, have ... eiether separately or in alliance
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[/hung] brooded over the latter, as over the former Science to check the flight of Geniuses, [/no Burglear] Nothing either from without, or from within has stood [/???] before the one as before the other to p/terify from the ????] to prevent the assumption of past procedures? * [*: wheresoever Judgement [/should] depicted from end of the [/whole expansion] [x/???] with the most unlimited freedom, or the [/persual of] pursuing them through their abstract consequences. Accordingly on the well hidden field of the Science The Tactic proven? [/of the ???] have bestioned? themselves vigorously on all sides; & if many thinking, yet remain p.obscure] ill-defined, ill [/arranged] methodised it may be deemed, to use a distinction of Ld Bacon's stile imperfection not homonics. but artis [/from a defect in the num ber or distinctness in the memory not either of labour [/???] or ingenuity in their arrangements On the other hand If we would form a Judgement of the manner in which Lawyers have proceeded in marshalling the articles of their Science? [are need [/let in] but] concieve of the medical Systematic as having interspersed in their divisions of
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diseases such as were treated by ???? excluding?, such as were treated by Opinion, such as were treated by Antimony, & such as were treated by the Bark * [*???] [x/I open a celebrated Book of Institutes, & I there read that '???? is an offence' ... [x/It might as well have been said] [replaced by 1: It were as proper to say (did not usage in some sort authorities the p/providing en infision) that Opinion is a disease. It were even more so, since the [/conformity] [x/application] of the same remedy to diseases of different denominations might seem + [+: at least till the inference were waekened by a more particular [expression of their natures] detect their causes of their symptoms] to [/indicate] infer some [/degree] sort of analogy between the diseases themselves - But what Analogy is there [/for example] between the Offence of bringing the Popish transferries into their healer?, + [+: 13 Comm. c. 2.] & that of [/acting] condoning? forcibly transporting [/men & women] [subjects] out of it? || [||: 31. Car. 2. c. 2.]
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+ [+: 4 Comm. 102]
I open a celebrated Book of Institutes, & at the 8th Chapter of the .... Book & [/at the opening] [x/the ????] [/of] that chapter [x/ I find this Sentence. A third [/in a note] [u/species of offence] more immediately affecting the thing & his government, thought not subject to capital Punishment is that of Premenive]
The same Author a f ew pages after * [*: 16.115] with his usual elegance, & not without energy precedent in this strain. "Thus for the penalties of Premunive same to have hand written the proper Sounds of their original institution, the deprofing of the power of the Pope: but they being pains of no inconsiderable consequence, it has been thought fit to apply the same to other heinour offences; some of which bear more & some less relation to their original offence
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