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 1 1 |     use to the legislator as a test of courage? Might we not
 2 1 |  potion which might serve as a test of overboldness and excessive
 3 1 |    wine, in the first place to test, and in the second place
 4 1 | greater risk:—Would you rather test a man of a morose and savage
 5 1 |         will doubt that such a test is a fair test, and safer,
 6 1 |     that such a test is a fair test, and safer, cheaper, and
 7 8 |     citizens will never find a test of superior and inferior
 8 10|         they can be put to the test at any future time, and
 9 12|       of them by every sort of test to which a freeman may be
10 12|       and bringing them to the test of experience, until every
11 12|      of all these the one sure test is the writings of the legislator,