19.The final cause we are to observe,and finishing exploit,the `portus et sabbatum ',as Lord Bacon might perhaps have called it,(75)of this sublime and edifying dissertation,is this demonstration,he has been giving us,of the perfection of the British Form of Government.This demonstration (for by _disibledevent=1+1000+1,000,000Therefore,by (13)15The British Government has +strength +wisdom +honesty Changing the expression 16The British Government is all-powerful +all-wise +all-honest But by definition 17All-powerful +all-wise +all-honest -all-perfect Therefore,by (16)and (17)18The British Government is all-perfect,Q.E.D.SCHOLIUM.After the same manner it may be proved to be all weak,all-foolish,and all-knavish.
21.Thus much for the British Constitution;and for the grounds of that pre-eminence which it boasts,I trust,indeed,not without reason above all others that are known:Such is the idea our Author gives us of those grounds.'You are not satisfied with it then',says some one.Not perfectly.'What is then your own?'In truth this is more than I have yet quite settled.
I may have settled it with myself,and not think it worth the giving:but if ever I do think it worth the giving,it will hardly be in the form of a comment on a digression stuffed into the belly of a definition.At any rate it is not likely to be much wished for,by those,who have read what has been given us on this subject by an ingenious foreigner:since it is to a foreigner we were destined to owe the best idea that has yet been given of a subject so much our own.Our Author has copied:but Mr.DE L'OLMEhas thought.