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Known therefore it should seem it is already
by myself: for one example; by our Author, for
another: by the man that sweeps our Chimney's
for a third. [To begin with myself about whom
I can be the surest, I protest upon the word of an honest
man, I can not find by any of the accounts I have the description given it
made with, that there is any such thing at all.
If he knows what it consists of, I amongst many
others would have been infinitely obliged to him
to have told us. This he has not done: probably
for the reasons last given here just mentioned; + + we are a <add>every man is to conform to it nogen vegus nolens volens & so it was not worth while to tell us what it is as not
thinking it worth his while.

[A sample of it, however, He has given us. pretty longer sample of This
sample consists of three principles: and they are these.
1st "We should hurt nobody live honestly," +" +p.40 2dly "we should hurt
nobody;" + thirdly, "we should render to every one his
due." + For A pretty large sample this too it should seem
to be; for Justinian says, that here is all of it:
not only of it indeed, but of every thing that is known
by the name of Law; for "Jus" means Law <add> but is</add> of
the Municipal Law therefore among the rest. if Jus means Law Thus saith Justinian;
and with Justinian the our author finds
no fault. our Author however says that this is not Not that he will allow it to be all, neither;
all is since there are "others" + that he knows of.
What these others are, How much great our obligation to him, had he told
us! There are but three: more than as many again
there could hardly not surely be. So great an Emperor as Justinian,
an Emperor whose words are made authority,



Identifier: | JB/096/054/004
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

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096

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comment on the commentaries

Folio number

054

Info in main headings field

sect. ii law of nature

Image

004

Titles

note

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / / /

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[motif] [lion with crown motif]]]

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Notes public

ID Number

31058

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