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satisfactorily prove that the first di¬ 
gression was no digression at all: 
and that, as works are now written, 
a book consisting wholly of digres¬ 
sion would be one quite as relevant 
to the subject as any that have lately 
appeared. Coming to the point at 
once is, at all times, hard, harsh, and 
unnatural, and not to be endured. 
In what action, in what event, in what 
relation of life, would it be suffer¬ 
able ? In law, barristers, attorneys, 
even the judges themselves, would be 
ruined. In medicine, what M.D. 
could be enabled to keep a better 
vehicle whan a wheelbarrow ? In 
politics, what would become of our 
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