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have taken two candles and lantern and searched
the world over with two candles in his lantern before he would be able to find
that Municipal Law that could would pass
[current] muster with our Author.
Sanction
He is either talking of the Sanction when he should to
be talking of the directory part, or his ideas
are so effectually confounded by his own explanation
of them that he knows not one from
t'other.
Wickedness imparts not only the effect of a particular
action , but the general complexion of the agent's character.
The multitude of penal laws may serve of itself as a
proof of the scarcity of the whole to persons
who think he deeper than our Author
True — Laws may be vain — but yet there may
be Laws
Were the whole business of Legislation to be done began de
novo, were a compleat System of laws respecting
every class of objects to be mad forth [at once] the parts
of a Law must be made at once, and would be
visible altogether . But
Is it prescribing the damages that the
part does, or by pointing is it the method of
recovering them.
Abstract terms are such as suit a larger assemblage
of objects the more they are abstracted
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