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<p>not necessarily included; & supposing the definition to<lb/> | |||
< | have been just (which it is not) supposing it not to<lb/> | ||
have mistaken the foundation of Law, for <del>the</del<lb/> | |||
the Law itself what followed would have been<lb/> | |||
consistent enough. But it was a strange attempt<lb/> | |||
indeed to tack these inferences to our Author's definition <lb/> | |||
of Law. — To make God for instance <hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> <note>+ Vol. 1 p. 39</note> <hi rend='underline'>prescribe</hi><lb/> | |||
<hi rend='underline'>Laws</hi> to himself: that is, be at once <add><hi rend='underline'>his own</hi></add> Superior<lb/> | |||
& Inferior: Master & Man: To make Stones feel<lb/> | |||
obligation; or to <del>tie</del> make man choose without choice:<lb/> | |||
will without volition.<lb/></p> | |||
<p>The professed design of <del>the Commentaries</del> <add>our Author</add> is <add>to</add> <hi rend='underline'>methodise</hi><lb/> | |||
<add> | & <hi rend='underline'>explain</hi>" a science which had been hitherto <del>been</del> but<lb/> | ||
little cultivated. — <foreign>Quod dedit principium adveniens</foreign>?<lb/> | |||
I shall leave the reader to answer this question. <del>The</del> <lb/> <del>Ancients too were fond of talking of</del> <add>Horace too <del>was</del> of old talked much about</add> <add>the<del>ir</del></add> <hi rend='underline'><foreign>lucidus ordo</foreign></hi>.<lb/> | |||
And yet it was reserved to a great Genius <del>of the present</del> <add>of our own to discover</add><lb/> | |||
<del>Age to discover,</del> <add>1800 years afterwards</add> that there was any order at all, in <lb/> | |||
the very book where <del>this phrase occurs. <gap/> The</del> <add>he recommends it. Perhaps our learned</add><lb/> | |||
Commentator may one day meet with as able a friend.<lb/> | |||
<del>At <gap/></del> He seems to be a great Admirer of the Ancients <del><add>truth</add></del><lb/> <add>and</add></p> | |||
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being, who is confined by | matter: on the obligation of unconscious<lb/> | ||
being: on acts of superiority exercised, and<lb/> | |||
inferiority allowed, by one, and the same<lb/> | |||
being to himself? On the free agency of a<lb/> | |||
being, who is confined by absolute necessity?<lb/> | |||
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not necessarily included; & supposing the definition to
have been just (which it is not) supposing it not to
have mistaken the foundation of Law, for the</del
the Law itself what followed would have been
consistent enough. But it was a strange attempt
indeed to tack these inferences to our Author's definition
of Law. — To make God for instance + + Vol. 1 p. 39 prescribe
Laws to himself: that is, be at once his own Superior
& Inferior: Master & Man: To make Stones feel
obligation; or to tie make man choose without choice:
will without volition.
The professed design of the Commentaries our Author is to methodise
& explain" a science which had been hitherto been but
little cultivated. — Quod dedit principium adveniens?
I shall leave the reader to answer this question. The
Ancients too were fond of talking of Horace too was of old talked much about their lucidus ordo.
And yet it was reserved to a great Genius of the present of our own to discover
Age to discover, 1800 years afterwards that there was any order at all, in
the very book where this phrase occurs. The he recommends it. Perhaps our learned
Commentator may one day meet with as able a friend.
At He seems to be a great Admirer of the Ancients truth
and
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matter: on the obligation of unconscious
being: on acts of superiority exercised, and
inferiority allowed, by one, and the same
being to himself? On the free agency of a
being, who is confined by absolute necessity?
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