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1821 May 18 /1822 March 5/ Codification
1821 May 18 /1822 March 5/

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'.4. Draughtsman single /'.8. Singleness known/

Of all those cases, the two most likely to be exemplified, and in fact the two

most frequently exemplified are the second and the fifth: from the consideration

of these two the influence exercised by the circumstances in question will be

sufficiently brought to view: what other variations of effect will be produced

by the other

So far as regards consistency, true it is that if the work be really the work of

no more than one workman, what may have been the number supposed to have been

concerned in it is a circumstance that makes no difference. But in comparison of

those portions of aptitude on the part of the work which depend upon appropriate

moral aptitude, and thence upon responsibility on the part of the workman, as

above, any imperfection likely to be produced by mere want of consistency as

between one part of the work and another, each of them being supposed apt with

reference to its own part of the field, is a minor[?] object.
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