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Where two circumstances are frequently concomitant there
is nothing to which men are more prone than to regard one
as the cause of the other, especially if by accident that one be
actually so sometimes.
There are no set of men who have greater occasion to pay so
much attention to the precision & force of words , as Lawyers.
There are no set of men who give so many words as Lawyers
Hence it becomes a notion , tho' the precision of the legal words
is owing to their multitubde.
It is true that where the import of a word is vague the addition
of another word shall make it precise: but it is as
true that where the import of a word is precise , the adition
of another shall make it vague — and this latter affect is
as apt to take place as is the former.
Where the sole business as here is to express Ideas clearly
(for I speak not of subjects that admitts of ornaments) let it
be only one done by the number that is sufficient to perform
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that office : every word that comes afterwards is a nuisance .
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Physicians. This is not familiar to Law. Physicians alike obliged to make a parade ,
and conceal the simplicity of their remedies - +
Naaman and Elijah — If it were some
great thing thou wouldst have done it ,
Source of this , ignorance . The who knows - but"?
The effect of a thing unknown , not understood
is not to be . The stock of incognate
is an inexhaustible fund of hope and expectation
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