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Place and Time
No I

(a) Mr Hume observes with great ingenuity
and seemingly with great truth that a law
to this prospect is more likely to have the
contrary effect than that which is here supposed
to be intended.


No II

(b) This distinction is in truth the great
stumbling block of a certain class of laws writers. The question
of fact and the question of propriety are continually incessantly
confounded. Sometimes it is the
fo latter that is prest for the former: of this
an example may be seen in Sir W. Blackstone's
Commentaries. See Frag. on Government.
Ch. First. More frequently the former for the latter:
as in the instances quoted above from Montesquieu. The books that have been written
on the pretended Law of nature have scarce
any other foundation than this mistake. There
are accordingly two sorts of propositions which are
given produced indiscriminately under the character of
laws of nature: the one declaring how things are,
the













































































Identifier: | JB/100/005/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

100

Main Headings

influence of time and place

Folio number

005

Info in main headings field

place and time

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

32021

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