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 . And I think it is very evident we can, with much more eaſe, impreſs images on the minds of one another by a compound communication through the eyes and ears, than it is poſſible to do by one only: and eſpecially ſhould we adopt the leaſt perfect, which is the verbal or literal. The other being in many inſtances nearly ſufficient, alone, to complete the information.

It was urged, my Lord, on the above Trial, with much promptitude on the Plaintiffs’ ſide, that the terms they offered the public were founded on more liberal principles than any that had ever before been propoſed. This was, that they (Meſſrs. Bolton and Watt) ſhould always be paid, annually, only one third ſhare of the nett ſaving produced by each Engine they ſhould erect; and that provided here appeared no ſaving at all, they received no emolument. The matter thus ſtated and uninveſtigated, has, I confeſs, at firſt ſight, an appearance of the pretended fairneſs; but as there is a wheel within a wheel in this buſineſs, which I am perſuaded did not ſtrike your Lordſhip, though the ears of all in Court were even ſhook by the ſtreſs the eminent advocate laid on this part of his very well-ſhaped ;