★ Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
T. . Prelude XIII
A writer may be engaged in a tract disquisition <add></add> so dry & barren gloomy <add>dismal</add>, may
be pardoned any little excursions he may take to refresh like a <add></add>
himself little refreshment, tho' it were at from the cup of ,
who without which he together with and those patient persons
he draws after him can persuade to follow him must run the risk to perish with fatigue.
---page break---
Those methods of elucidation which may be stiled
mechanical with a view to their application not to their invention where united to those which more immediately
render a composition perfect.
---page break---
Many elaborate & well imagined specimens of this
kind are to be found met with in the Statute Book; furnishes many specimens
The
appendix to the Statute immediately preceding that under consideration
may be deemed furnishes 3 <add>each which may be termed</add> master pieces: in this species of composition.
---page break---
Tis encreasing the Burthen instead of lessening it,
if the knowledge of what is abrogated is be made contained
necessary to the understanding of what is in force.
---page break---
I know, that nothing can be more disgusting
than the minutiae of verbal critisism. but,
---page break---
CONCLUSION Thus have I endeavoured to shew prove, by an investigation
of which the tedium prolixity & minuteness of which,
can only be apologized for by the importance
of the end, extent & competence of the result it has in view <add> at</add> [that what is most simple, is
at the same time most efficacious:] that the stile of legislative composition
gives no far from deriving any advantages from those peculiarities
whereby it is distinguished from ordinary
discourse derives many striking disadvantages -
that these peculiarities scarce serve less frustrate the ends to
which they seem more pos especially to be directed, than
any of those other ends which [a legislator ought to have
in view] must concur in order to give efficacy
to a Law
Whether I may venture to write Q.E.D.
under any of these propositions, it is now for
the reader to pronounce determine.
---page break---
It is good, that litigation have a certain end; but
it is still better, that it never have a beginning.
---page break---
Few are thus animadversions observations will be found, that but what are
not applicable capable of <add>have an application</add> beyond the particular instrument
[in hand under consideration] passage which gave
occasion to them. The selection of the objects
of the a penalty, the measure of that penalty,
the &c &c are topics that run extend throughout
the Law.
---page break---
There would be little advantage in taking
a Statute in force rather than one repealed.
since there could be no security for it's continuance,
& since the very one [main] end of what
is written must be that it may not
continue.
---page break---
|
Identifier: | JB/095/014/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 95. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
095 |
|||
|
014 |
i prelude xiii |
||
|
001 |
|||
|
text sheet |
1 |
||
|
recto |
|||
|
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with vryheyt motif]]] |
||
|
30900 |
|||
