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Sect. IV. Connection of Laws Not. Div. and Municipal
Thus much for the Laws of Nature and Revelation:
the strange Div it stuff must our
brains be made of if we do not understand them now. These
are our foundations! "Upon these two the two conspicuous foundations depend all human
Laws". To find them placed On corresp foundations thus solid and conspicuous [like these]
to find them placed cannot but be a matter of
singular satisfaction.
From these we know Between these and our their good friend the Municipal
the name given to the sort of human Laws we are
Law that we are to come to by and bye For that's the name given to the sort of human Laws we are coming there subsists
as is rational to suppose the strictest a very strict sort of intimacy: Nor well the nature of that intimacy
and of the civilities they show each other will
meet with an explanation not a a whit less satisfaction
than the Laws themselves have had. The Tis indeed
the friendship of inequality, the armicitia inæqualitatis⊞ as it is somewhere called⊞ NOTE
⊞ Of See that invaluable
Quintessence of moral Science, the
Ethic Compend used at
Oxford, this shamble and of poor Municipal
Law theirs feeding with fear and thanksgiving
upon the scraps of obedience the others leave.
Indeed They keep (indeed) a tight hand (over) on him: and when
Where this shown either of them either of their thanks proper to be doing, all
it does that they let human they let it then to declare leave it for it him to do, is to tell what
it is they have done; seeing it's more than they can
do themselves,⊞ ⊞ to play an underpart
to them. and
The use of it in this case In short, what it does for them
seems to be, to do for
them is much the same sorts of
good offices that as what Mr
Andrew does for Mr
Punch repeat his works who is to
be troubled within an
: repeat say
his after him good things over again,
any of to g good of them should escape the company: which a good office, that as the last mentioned
facetious gentleman is apt to be troubled with a huskiness in his throat, is sometimes necessary
Well it is we have them! These indispensable under What should we, what
should we have done without them! Why there is
Murder now – There you Legislators, all
of you, cunning as you are. Do you think you could make Murder unlawful? Alasl! alas, thrash at it
till Doomsday. You'll as soon make a wash
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