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Click Here To Edit TURNPIKE ACT. Prelude
The intended which I had first originally formed
It was my wish first thought, to have rendered the new draught as represented in the whole short form an
exact abridgment of the old; but, if I may be pardoned the fact is it be pardonable
fathom the [often] unfathomable
intention of
the conjurers.
if it be pardon
speak this plain
for speaking out the plain many considerations circumstances rendered as I soon found
it impracticable for me to pursue
The expression so often goes beyond or falls short of,
what appears to me to be the design that a true account
of the one, would be a false one of the other.
The impossibility of forming an instrument, that shall at
once be a faithful abridgment of another [in which there
is found reason complain of these imperfection which
gain admittance into a in proportion of which
as there is the greater demand in it for abbreviation]
and a remedy for those evils aspects which are the natural offspring
of its prolixity will appear when it is considered that
An expression which is clear; in no true copy of one that is
confused — a single intelligible clause very inadequately represented is no true copy of
two clauses that are in contradiction: that a Generic term is
no fit adequate substitute for one or a few of its species only put promiscuously by inattentions
for the whole number.
of the truth of this,
side will be abundantly satisfied I believe find himself
by the notes
as it is, it will however
serve to give
a general notion idea
of it as accurate as
what abridgments often
give; tho' not
accurate enough to
serve as a rule for
practice — with these
with this advantage, from which an abridgment entirely scrupulously faithful
could not must be excluded, by it's bulk, of representing
the whole scheme at a view.
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