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Sect. I. Of Laws in General.

this name: but that's neither here nor there;
And you give over to that torment for
those complaints you have and day issued
not being conformed

(2) At the same time [they are not conformed to.
'tis what you hear complaints of every day.
Nothing can be more just than those complaints.
I have made them myself. And
now you are fully enabled to account for
them.

(1) Another sort of Laws that a man is bound
by are those that human legislators make for
him: those too are said to bind "to compell him" him, ‡⊞ This being the case
he may "choose" (tho' or not easily") whether
he will do or no what
they ask bid him: for
they do not
p. 57.
not that those make it "impossible
for him to" do otherwise: How
times
"[which] is the strict" and proper "sense
of" binding or "obligation".

Now it is to be hoped you understand compleatly
the difference between the way a clock is
bound and the way a man is bound. A
Clock does what it is bound to do "invariably"
while it varies: A man does it "necessarily"
and invariably "inevitably" that is, he takes his
"choice" and does no such thing. Lord help you if you don't know what the word bound means now. Nothing
but the most incorrigible stupidity make the or [pretend
any longer to have a doubt about the
meaning of the word "bound".]

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Identifier: | JB/028/037/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.

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Box

028

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

037

Info in main headings field

sect. i of laws in general

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / b6 / f7 / b8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[monogram] [lion with crown motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

9302

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