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To Labours thus successful for the instruction of the
public, accounts these clear of matters thus important,
an adequate suitable reward was due . . They have None so
it suitable as the author's self-applause. They
have it. They have it in the generous disdain
testified against these vain surendrers who perhaps
the inimitable simplicity of this Law of Nature by "a
"multitude of abstracted rules and precepts referring
"merely to the fitness or unfitness of things."

This Law of Nature, simple and perspicuous [as our
Author has found or made it,]+ + to the degree we have been observed some have been
found perverse enough to suppose perplex'd: perplexed with rules and principles, not in a small
number like those we have seen, but in a multitude;
and those abstract: p. 41. rules and precepts referring
to a standard so obscure as that of the fitness and
unfitness of things, instead of that precise and perspicuous
one the Author has set up established [by our Author] in the generous disdain he has expressed utterd of against these vain surmisers:

no reward so competent as that he alone could himself bestow confer: as reward so competent as has his own self-congratulationsClear as the Law of nature is in itself and in
this account of it, it is not all every one who that finds it so.
all men are not gifted with equal accuracy of intuition.
The beautifull simplicity we have had so much
occasion to admire shines shews not wlike to the eyes of
all. everyone. Some have been found perverse enough to
"perplex" it "with a multitude of rules and precepts"
not of their Laws dictating it should seem, but of their
own invention. Over such surmisers our Author exalts with a generous disdain One should have liked, had it only
been for curiositys sake, to have had some character

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Folio number	056	Info in main headings field	law of nature
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
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