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Section 1

The Author's a Account of Lawsin general.

"Law, in general, / says our Author / is a Vol:1. P. 38
"rule of action, which is prescribed by some
"superior, and which the inferior is bound to
"obey."

Having given us this special sense of the thus defined what he means by the term
Now when a man sets out by defining any thing term, that is by telling us, that whenever I us
word law, it was natural we had ve a right to expect, that he
would should use it in this sense, and in this sense
For what is it to <add>does a man do when he defines a word term? but to he tells the his reader, "whenever I</add>
only throughout the rest of his discourse. What
"use such a <add>this term I mean to excite in your mind such & such ideas." If during the course of his argument he makes use of this same term to</add>
then must be the surprise of the reader, when
raise <add>excite very different ideas very different from those, of which he had at the outset he declared it the sign, he may be playing at cross-purposes, but he must not pretend</add>
in the very next line he is told, that "this word
to be reasoning — He is like the reasoner <add>man of Dr supposed by Brown: Essay on Charact. Sec. v. who he assures us that he has a wind mill which lays eggs, & breeds young</add>
is indiscrinately applied to all kinds of action,
ones: by a wind mill ones: — meaning by a wind mill <add>all the while a goose or a Turkey.</add>
whether animate, or inanimate.
Let us see now I am afraid whether how far our learned Judge has not is rational now & then apt to put windmills

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