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 ¬it is too much the fashion to boast of yet to condemn. — The cession of property may be a wise and beneficial system, if applied with speedy and costless ceremonies to the insolvencies of the commercial world, where property is large and tangible, but when extended to the very lowest orders of the people, whose effects can rarely be follozved, it holds out a dan- gerous temptation to fraud, and strikes at the very foundation of credit, by destroying all the securities of trust. ¬I had now been so long engaged in the exa- mination of the laws of Armata, and so much pleased with my companions of the profession, who were most eminent and incorruptible per- sons, highly esteemed for their general learning and talents, that I almost resolved to think no more of our world, and to become an advo- cate in their courts. — They were highly diverted and pleased with my project, but suggested to me that their language was not easy — an ob- jection however which I answered by observing, ¬that ¬