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Inserenda Stat: Law.
Obligation
without reserve exception or hesitation proclaims the
Laws of an infidel country ipso facto
void. I have not heard with whether this I hope the and dare believe the respectable
to his Magistrate who from succeeding to his chair was
text of our Author was, among the instructions
of those Magistrates who were (sent to
carry peace & reformation to the conquer'd Indies, has did not
with that Chair succeeded to his opinions.
NOTE:
Not all the delicacy respect which is due to a the opinions
of a colleague keeping himself themselves within any
bounds of discret ordinary discretion, and which is inviolably
observed by the great man I am speaking
of where due, could scarce preserve this opinion doctrine
from being treated by the Court of King's Bench
with the contempt it merited just generous & undissembled scorn. It was, or I am
misinformed misled by private as well as public information
it was pronounced in terminis "absurd" and
in the great cause of the Prerogative impost in
Grenada.
Moral trampled on
I said, he trampled upon the Moral Sanction. It
took caught his eye as he was musing on the subject
of Gaming, and tho' out of his way he attacked
it and laid it sprawling. All carnal considerations
he makes a merit of immolating wherever he meets
with him, as an acceptable sacrifice to
the God he worships. I must be pardoned this
anticipation: for in a moral work so spread abroad &
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