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This then to take our Author's word for it, is an
Statute of the enlarging kind; and being so, does
not restrain.
For my part, I should be glad to
know, were our Author able to tell us or anybody
for him, what it is that it enlarges; unless
it be the bulk of the collection, as any other
will that is added to it. I can [presumably]
tell him at once what it is that it restrains,
and that is the actions of the persons that are
the objects of it: just as that does which
he brings as an example of a restricting one
with this difference only that his enlarging restraining
Statute and imposes restraint where before there
was no restraint, and his enlarging one
imposes a much severer restraint to have in addition
to a restraint there was none before. I am supposing all this
while that it is punishment that makes resentment. I might go farther and say, that there
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