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36
Stat. Law Inserenda
so consulted, it is of importance to draw into a focus the whole
body of his fundamental principles in their
colours.
I mean nothing less than to apologize for the
habit of Gaming. In a private it is a weakness
it is vice: in a public man it is wickedness,
it is improbity. The public man stakes upon
the cast of the die all the good he may be
compelled to forbear doing and all the mischief
he may be impelled to do by the loss forfeiture of his fall from
that independence from which ill success
may cast him down. But of all things
I should never have thought of adverting recommending
meanness and a cool depravity as an for
passionate imprudence. I could not advise a formal and reflective rupture
with of the most potent the strongest of those principles that
bind man to man, as a remedy for a temporary
forgetfulness of principle.
What is called The sense of Honour is Homage paid a sentiment of submission to the
Moral Sanction. Our Author [happening to] not finding recollecting the
word in his Bible starts with a popular vulgar
and panic horror antipathy from the thing idea, not knowing
or not caring for its subserviency to those designs ends
which it is the acknowledged purpose of his Bible
to enforce.
Stat: Law 36 Inserenda
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