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They found out the pretty early the way of
making a man pay money [when it was thought
he ought to pay be made to pay money: it] They seized his goods if they
could find any, & sold them and gave the money
to him to whom he himself ought to have given it.
if they could find no goods they too seized his person body,
took it for granted he could pay the money, and kept
him in jail till he should do so. But they had no
notion of its being possible to make a man do
any thing else; or to abstain from any thing:
to perform an agreement specifically: to discharge
a trust, to make a conveyance of any kind: to
They had no notion of its being possible to attend to the claims of where their persons at a time. abstain from thing
was to: in short to perform any
kind of service to any body, positive or negative.
To reckon up all they might and should have done
for the benefit of the object but would not do or
knew not how to do, would take up volumes. The
business of society thus superintended, could not
go on: the ears of Majesty were assaulted by incessant
& well-grounded complaints. Reason would
have dictated the gov infusing new powers into
these helpless bodies:] the supplying the antient courts with
the necessary powers chance and ignorance produced the establishment
of a new one. To establish the requisite
complement of powers it would have been necessary
to
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