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who is more fortunate than I am.

But that “honeste” which is Justinian’s
word, means signifies “honestly” all this while,
in any other vocabulary than our author’s. In
the mouth of Justinian who said it, honesté
where signified, I should suppose, to live
by the rules of decorum: whatever according
to Justinian’s decorum notion may have
been decorum.

An explanation a little more precise of this
precept, if it will admits of any explanation
that is at all precise, may perhaps be this –
According to what Justinian meant by it, it signifies
to act right (that is what he who gains it
as thought right)) in matters wherin other men’s
interests are not directly concerned: as by abstaining
from drunkenness, obscenities and the so
forth. According to what our author has
made of it it signifies to act right in matters
wherein other men’s interests are directly
concerned: which gives it no imaginable distinction
from the other two.

Of the second one : “we should hurt nobody” the


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Box	028	Main Headings	Comment on the Commentaries
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field	Law of Nature
Image	004	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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