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concerning whom every thing is in a State
of uncertainty and uncognoscibility as
complete as corruption can wish, it being
unknown, not only if one, who he is, if
many who they are, but whether the discretion
to which all these lives are committed to
the discretion of many or of but one; if many
what discussion there is being performed,
and in closet secrecy, the life of the subject
being tossed about from hand to hand
and the thread cut by a whisper an
interjection or a nod; if but one and
even if such be the custom when there are
many, a mere expression of will being
sufficient and no exercise of any such
faculty as that of the understanding
necessary.

The system of what is called Justice,
legislation and administration together is
perfectly well adapted to these its ends,
and the mechanism of it in a certain
sense extremely simple. Laws are made
declaring that for such and such a



Identifier: | JB/107/336/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

107

Main Headings

law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)

Folio number

336

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1821

Notes public

ID Number

35327

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