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1828 Aug. 30
Blackstone

6
Ch. 1
(3 §.2. Universal Jurisprudence

To command is to order
is to bid. Two first from
Latin, the other Saxon.
A bidding gives idea of do
at an auction.

An equivalent More familiar still than order is to to command, is to bid. The words
command and order came to us both of them, from the Latin, through
the medium of the French originally from the Latin: the word verb to
bid, from our Saxon ancestor. Unfortunately for the substantive, to speak in the language of
command and order are have no correspondent Saxon
substantives, we have instead the substantive a bidding: but
that word sends us in idea — not to the thing nor to the armchair,
but to the pulpit of the Auctioneer.

Commands & orders not
universally agreable, only
to those who deliver them.

Around a Having as our fact in what is universally no less
universally intelligible than familiar familiar as well as universally intelligible, we are not yet arrived
at any thing which is universally, nor any thing
like universally agreable. Command — order — are universally pleasant
enough to those by whom they are delivered; not altogether
so extensively so to those by whom they are required to be
conformed to and obeyed.

Next. obligation, still
less agreable, real signification
difficult to arrive
at. An 8vo vol on it.

Before we arrive at anything which is universally agreable One step more we must take on this glowing path
one idea more with its appellants we must bring to
view — the idea of obligation. At the sound or sight this word many a time
contracts itself, itself — not merely at the thought of
the unpleasantness of the thing signified, but also at the imagined difficulty
of arriving at the exact signification, or at any rate, at
the regular and efficient cause of it. One book there is, and that an
entire 8vo Volume which at one time was in the Bookseller
shops but by this time is pre findable at the Furniture maker
or the Tallow chandler (whichever the fittest place for it) the
title of it — an Essay or a Treatise (or something of that sort to that effect)
on Obligation.

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Date_1	1828-08-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	058	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
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