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Thus according to our Author, saith Justinian: and with Justinian our
Author finds no fault. Not that he will allow it
to be all neither: since there are "others", it
seems, that he knows of. What those "others"
are it would have been but charity in him
to have told us. The trouble surely could not
have been great: here are but three: more
of them than as many again there could not
surely be. So great, so wise an emperor as
Justinian, an emperor whose words are oracles,
surely could not have been mistaken more than
half. It is the more to be regretted our Author
has not given us the rest of them, as what
he has given us are such as no mortal alive
our author himself in particular, I dare answer
for him can tell what to make of.

Of the 1st, viz: live "we should live honestly," as obvious
a sense as any is we should do as we ought
to do: which brings the precepts or rather the doctrines to this incontestable
one: what we regret to do we ought
to do. This or "we should not violate another's
"property," if one or other of them, such as they
are I take to be the meaning of "we should
"live honestly." If not, let him find out what is.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	028	Main Headings	Comment on the Commentaries
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field	Law of Nature
Image	003	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering	B5 / B6 / B7 / B8
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::GR [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
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