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<p>and surely <add>could</add> not have been mistaken <del><add>as to me</add></del> more than half. | <p>and surely <add>could</add> not have been mistaken <del><add>as to me</add></del> more than half.<lb/> | ||
<lb/> | <add>As to these general<del>precepts</del> <add>"principles" or</add></add> It is the more to be regretted we have not the<lb/> | ||
<add> | rest of them, as what we have are such as no<lb/> | ||
<lb/> | mortal alive, in particular our Author, can make<lb/> | ||
rest of them, as what we have | |||
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mortal alive, in particular our | |||
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head or tail of.</p> | head or tail of.</p> | ||
[ Of | [Of the 1<hi rend='superscript'>st</hi> viz: <del><gap/> <unclear>should</unclear></del> <add><del><gap/></del></add> "live honestly" <note>p.40</note>; <del>the most</del> <add>as</add> <lb/> | ||
<lb/> | obvious <add>a</add> sense <add>as any</add> is <del>that we should do</del> <add>to do as we</add> ought to do:<lb/> | ||
which brings the precept to this <del><unclear>incontrovertible</unclear></del> <add>incontestible</add><lb/> | |||
one, that what we ought to do, we ought to<lb/> | |||
do. <del>If not this does not please, but we must have</del> <add>This, or not to trespass upon another's property:</add><lb/> | |||
<del><gap/> <gap/> a little <unclear>more</unclear> <gap/></del> <add>if one or other of them <add>such as they are</add> be not the meaning</add><lb/> | |||
of living honestly, let him find out who has <add>what is</add> better<lb/> | |||
luck than I have. [Not that <foreign><hi rend='underline'>honeste</hi></foreign> <gap/><lb/> | |||
meantime signifies to live <hi rend='underline'>honestly</hi> in any other<lb/> | |||
vocabulary than our Author's: it signified, in<lb/> | |||
the <unclear>mouth</unclear> of Justinian who used it, to <del><unclear>preserve</unclear></del> <add>follow the rules of decorum</add><lb/> | |||
<del>decorum</del>, whatever according to Justinian's notion <add>might</add><lb/> | |||
<add>have been</add> was decorum. <note>its <del><gap/></del> <add>just</add> an account perhaps as any <del>to give</del> of the precept before us, may be this:</note> <del>Perhaps it might be as just</del><lb/> | |||
<del>an account <add>of</add> as any to give of <hi rend='underline'>this</hi> <gap/> <add><unclear>precept</unclear></add> <unclear>expression</unclear> to</del><lb/> | |||
<del><unclear>say that</unclear>:</del> according to what <hi rend='underline'>Justinian</hi> <hi rend='underline'>meant</hi><lb/> | |||
by it, it signifies to act <del><gap/> <gap/> <gap/> <gap/> ought</del> <add><hi rend='underline'>right</hi> (that is what he who</add><lb/> | |||
<hi rend='underline'>right</hi> <del>by <gap/> <gap/> <gap/></del> <add><unclear>gave</unclear> it <unclear>in</unclear> thought right)</add> in matters wherein<lb/> | |||
<del>the</del> <add><hi rend='underline'>other</hi> men's</add> <gap/> <unclear>to</unclear> <del><unclear>of</unclear></del> <hi rend='underline'>are not</hi> directly concerned: <del>[</del>in which<lb/> | |||
case it may stand in opposition to the <hi rend='underline'>two last</hi>:<del>]</del><lb/> | |||
according to what <hi rend='underline'>our Author</hi> has <hi rend='underline'>made</hi> of it, it signifies<lb/> | |||
to act right in matters wherein other men's interests<lb/> | |||
<hi rend='underline'>are</hi> directly concerned; [which gives it no<lb/> | |||
imaginable distinction from the other two, <del>]</del><lb/> | |||
Of the second, <add>viz. <del>we</del> "hurt nobody"</add> <note>p.40</note> the sense is either <add>simply</add> that we should,</p> | |||
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and surely could not have been mistaken as to me more than half.
As to these generalprecepts <add>"principles" or</add> It is the more to be regretted we have not the
rest of them, as what we have are such as no
mortal alive, in particular our Author, can make
head or tail of.
[Of the 1st viz: should "live honestly" p.40; the most as
obvious a sense as any is that we should do to do as we ought to do:
which brings the precept to this incontrovertible incontestible
one, that what we ought to do, we ought to
do. If not this does not please, but we must have This, or not to trespass upon another's property:
a little more if one or other of them <add>such as they are be not the meaning</add>
of living honestly, let him find out who has what is better
luck than I have. [Not that honeste
meantime signifies to live honestly in any other
vocabulary than our Author's: it signified, in
the mouth of Justinian who used it, to preserve follow the rules of decorum
decorum, whatever according to Justinian's notion might
have been was decorum. its just an account perhaps as any to give of the precept before us, may be this: Perhaps it might be as just
an account of as any to give of this precept expression to
say that: according to what Justinian meant
by it, it signifies to act ought right (that is what he who
right by gave it in thought right) in matters wherein
the other men's to of are not directly concerned: [in which
case it may stand in opposition to the two last:]
according to what our Author has made of it, it signifies
to act right in matters wherein other men's interests
are directly concerned; [which gives it no
imaginable distinction from the other two, ]
Of the second, viz. we "hurt nobody" p.40 the sense is either simply that we should,
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