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tighter upon those whose stamina have been hardened
by authority age and office and age. The talks backwards and
forwards, they these governers are sharper bound than their subjects,
and yet it is not every instance of their violation
of their oath that is to be looked upon as perjury.
One thing however is clear on: which is that
if there be a single statute which any man of
them has seen go into disuse without using his
doing what depended
doing any thing taking any step to give it execution, that man
is a perjured beyond dispute.

One discovery made of this casuist upon this
occasion contained in this species of casuistry is
it may be worth while to mention — may be not undeserving of our notice: being applicable
to one sort of law as well as another,
it may be of no small use service in the character
of a Jury to let us in to the true intent and
object of a law. It is that when a legislator
commands you bids you to do a thing and tells you you
shall be punished if you don't, it is a sign
that it is all the same to him whether you
do it as he bids you or get punished for not
doing it; so that if a legislator forbids murder
under pain of hanging it is all one to him whether
he sees all his men remain at peace or whether
one of them is gets murdered and the other hangs for it.

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This ingenious discovery is the salve usually
applied to tender consciences: as if when one
man had taken an oath, it depended upon another
man by equivocating to render it of no
force.

The Jesuit Society of Jesuits Loyola has hitherto
born the palm of equivocation sophistry; but the world
in giving it them has all along done shown the University
of Oxford great injustice. Whatever pretensions
proofs have given among the Jesuits sons of Loyola of a title to
that honour have been exhibited only here and there
by a few scattered individuals. The casuistry of the
University of Oxford is the act of the body as a body
renewed at every publication of this code, and presented
to the notice of every member and acquiesced
in and adopted by every member of the governing
class during the whole time of his administration command.

It will may naturally enough be asked occur, why with
what view cut out past parts of an oath by equivocation
when the same authority that gave the
equi circulated it the equivocation and gave it credit weight influence
was equally competent to the abolition? The answer
is that abolitions and changes import a tacit confession of want of
infallibility

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