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We may rest <add>therefore assured, that it was dictated promulgated in the clearest terms,
</add> applauded, rewarded, & recompensed; and the maladresse adroitnesse
& in the most <add>so public a manner, that it must come to the
</add> only was punished: Still regrets To the
Knowledge of every one who was to be bound by it. —
Scythiane were where no crime was s severely
I have used the term promulgated here, instead of our Author's
punished as theft: Shall To the Jews,
word of dictated, because it is more familiar in Jurisprudence.
where respect to the maintenance of our parents is recommended
but clearly <add>this is our Author's means meaning. By dictating, he means declaring To dictate is to deliver
</add> as one of the first of the Virtues?
with Authority: and though a prince might <add>may dictate in private
</add> To the Savag Indians, who make their aged
to his Secretary yet if what he dictates is to find his whole
Parents mount upon the oak, and if they
people, he will take care that it be promulgated to all his people,
cannot keep their hold against all the efforts [resist the violent shaking of] a nervous
in a manner that leaves them no doubt of it's coming from
arm, can make to shake them down dispatch them without pity?
him. And thus he may properly enough be said to dictate to his
When our Author has examined with ever so little attention
Let us see now whether this different conduct
these discordant actions of different Nations, he will I think
let him tell us what is become of his great law of nature
of different nations, can every way be re-
confess that he has not discovered, at least not pointed
universally known, universally obeyed? He has
conciled to such of those eternal and immut-
out to his readers this permanent maxim, this general
Criterion, this immutable law of Nature. Nature
table laws of good and evil, as our Author
extracted one or two of the principal articles of
has thought fit to specify? These are that
this his law of Nature: such as "that we "we Where When

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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	section ii / of the authors account of the laws of nature
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c15 / c16 / c17 / c18
Penner	168	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31009
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