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will have it so: and since he has taken so much pains
to make it so: his understanding shall be full of
error, or any thing of that kind that an understanding
can be full of: it shall be full
of ignorance is as is of , as soon as any thing can be full
of emptyness. He may promise the same in advantages <add>requisitions</add>
but felicity to any one who thinks he gets looks for instructions from
books thus written.
[In the midst of all this
it would be no small satisfaction to find that we are
all happy [as the days are long] if [we could be made
happy by] his saying [it.] it would make us so. p.— 42 "Is inseparably", as our ggood
those will have it, "are the Laws of eternal Justice
[this is the Law of Nature with another name to it]
so inseparably it seems are they interwoven, (besides
being "intimately connected") "with the happiness of each
"individual , that of the former be punctually obeyd
it cannot but induce the latter." This being the
case, happy we most certainly all are, whether
we know it or no,. unless [being] "punctually obeyd"
be - somthing very far short of [being] "necessarily
conformed to". I Strange indeed it would be, were
it otherwise, since when all comes to all, this same
puzzling sort of Law, of which so little a while before,
there was no knowing what to make, of,
amounts to no more than this one precept instead of
the three we had before (to say nothing of those whatever comes behind,
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