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a1 OBSTACLES. MOTIVES latent
This chapter to come
by way of Introduction
to particular Prejudices & hotovasts.
I shall conclude concluding what I have to say on this subject
with a passage out of Puffundorf already taken notes of for more than one purpose from which have
out of the shapeless compolation of that Author
like a pearl from out of a dung-hill.
"His very lard ( harvestAKennet's translation L.133. D.1729. ) to give reason
for many practises, which yet the common people
undertatare without sample or hesitation. To Garrow
deleted text mistance from a late Author", "Of a
man be found commuting a Robbery, the Multitude
presently join Hands & Minds to pursue
& to seize the thief: but if upon a Quarrel
One man hath killed another, everybody wishes
He may get off safe; at least nobody willingly
assists in the taking of him” – “The reason of such
A difference (continues Puffendorf) the Vulgar
Understand not which is this; every one is more
In danger from a thief who designs to plunder
Whoever he can meet with Booty; than from
An Actor of Manslaughter, who intends Mischief
"to name but those particularto the person who gave him provocation"
The people here of are of very truly &
Not to understand the reason of that difference
Which is the of this not here,
and yet it is they themselves who make it.
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