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It is known [in general] that how the compilers of our Statute Laws
are immemorial possession of giving number of times as many
words as can are be of any use; that Ideas are regularly introduced
for which there is no place, and that if for every three words
there be given one an Idea it is good measure.
Many clauses may be compared to [resemble] those foetus's which are
sometimes seen to come into the world with a vast mass of fungous
excrescence where one expects a Brain.
The multitude of tautological & excrementitious words, into which
as into a perpetual mist each particle of Sence is plunged, in
form a kind of Atmosphere, through which many eyes can
never bring themselves to penetrate at all; nor the most piercing
& most exercised without a disgustful nausea
& fatigue against which
scarce any habit can fortify. [from which scarce any habit
can dispense.]
As among natural objects, many by reason of their minuteness
require a magnifying apparatus, to render them apparent to
the eye; of these on the contrary (which surely are not natural)
many require to be diminished for the same purpose they are
like objects which
