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 1      I, 2 |   evidence given under torture, written contracts, and so on. By
 2      I, 10|         special law I mean that written law which regulates the
 3      I, 13|         members: this is partly written and partly unwritten. Universal
 4      I, 13|     others, one provided for by written ordinances, the other by
 5      I, 13|        defects of a community’s written code of law. This is what
 6      I, 13|   justice which goes beyond the written law. Its existence partly
 7      I, 14|        forced to be so, and the written laws depend on force while
 8      I, 14|       is worse which breaks the written laws: for the man who commits
 9      I, 15|  accusation and defence. If the written law tells against our case,
10      I, 15|        follow the letter of the written law. We must urge that the
11      I, 15|      the law of nature, whereas written laws often do change. This
12      I, 15|       and that consequently the written law is not, because it does
13      I, 15|        law in preference to the written. Or perhaps that the law
14      I, 15|         thereby. If however the written law supports our case, we
15      I, 15|       or Solon would never have written,~Pray thee, bid the red-haired
16      I, 15|     either universal law or any written law of our own or another
17     II, 3 |         Hence the poet has well written:~Say that it was Odysseus,
18    III, 1 |        delivery-speeches of the written or literary kind owe more
19    III, 5 |        is a general rule that a written composition should be easy
20    III, 12| appropriate style. The style of written prose is not that of spoken
21    III, 12|         speaking the same. Both written and spoken have to be known.
22    III, 12|         the general public.~The written style is the more finished:
23    III, 12|       actors look out for plays written in the latter style, and
24    III, 12|      very properly condemned in written speeches: but not in spoken
25    III, 15|        him of impiety in having written a line encouraging perjury—~