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To be copied
till after a discovery, and a legal conviction
Would the learned judge advance
these principles in his charge to
a grand jury of Sussex?
<add>All this confusion of our Author arises from using terms, to which he has affixed no precise idea. For what does he mean by conscience? What
a grand Jury of Sussex?
by that obligation which is not binding upon conscience? What by the mala in se, & the mala prohibita? Where will he draw the line?
It were to be wished that our author had
explained what he meant by the word
The Word Conscience is used <add>is prefers sometimesis used</add>
sometimes
the bare Consciousness of our own conduct,
and of the motives upon which we act: it
is sometimes word for the opinion we form
of that conduct and those motives, and their
agreement, or disagreement, with what we
apprehend to be the rule of right, and wrong:
It is sometimes used for the bare faculty
by
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