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This to come immediately before the Homoio nominia & anti-nominia as being a preparation to it.
l.Voluminousness Number - Burn.
That form of terrific immencity under which so many Titles in
the Law make their appearance to the mind that would posess
them, depends not solely upon the total quantity of contents,
but upon the number of different Acts containing. It is the
number which first strikes upon the attention, and before the
eye has separaely taen measure of them, one occupies as much
spacein the imagination as another - A man catches up his
Idea of the whole quantity from the numbers and that of the
quantity of each one of that umber, from some one or two, that
strike his imagination first in order or most forcibly; which
perhaps may be the largest.
At first glance they are estimated, numbers non-pondiric numero non pondire: by
tale and not by weight: and the first glance is all that many
a man can prevail upon himself to give them.
True it is that could a ma conquer this first impression he
might see at length, that the real substance lay within a compass
tolerably narrow. but the misfortune is, the mischief is already
done: the mind is already falscirated, contracted and dispirited: and the man is
turned in to fight his way through the labyrinth under the discouragement
that inseperably attends the idea of such a mass
of difficulties.
Besides in how small a space soever that substance be concentred -ated,
the reader's attention must not confine itself to within that
Space. His attention is equally demanded by the words -
which constitute that substance by those which making help no
thing towards it, & by those which marit.
Whether a word does good or [whether it does] mischief itis equally an object of concern: attention & there is not a word in a Statute thatdoes o good but what is liable to do mischief
The Law of a Title thus diffused through a variety of Statutes
may not unaptly be characterized, according to the
vulgar symbol, by a bunch of Needles, each carefully packed
up in a separate Hamper: and so entangled are the goods
with the packing, that it must be weighed off straw by straw
before they can be cleared of it.
COMPOS: Whole together. Number of Acts. Inconveniences of.- Burns
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