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Preface
of the bill and who is not in that line of duty or of
study which would lead him to weigh words & syllables,
may, as far as he thinks he can depend upon the
felicity of this copy, find it answer his purpose as well as the original.
paragraph
I am sorry I cannot give equal satisfaction to
his curiosity with respect to the preface; in which
the elegance of the stile which is the author's own, has
been at full liberty to display itself, unfettered, by
technical forms & prejudices. This I must not trans-
-cribe, nor can presume to imitate. The uncouth
piles of Parliamentary composition have not often been graced
with such a frontispiece.
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