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Click Here To Edit thus binding upon all. I have a sort And yet I have an
sort of pressentiment that our author will be as much
thus binding upon all. And were we
puzzled to tell us, what this law of Nature is, as of old
even to suppose, what, after this account
The Recorder of London was puzzled to tell William
of it, is too much to suppose, that here, and
See trial of William Penn H William Meadus the old 1670 Banley. a. d. - 1670 Penn H what the common Law was, whoFair "troublesome and fellow to use the
there an individual, had not arrived at
words of that humane Recorder/ took it into his head,
working recording words was impertinent enough
the knowledge of it: still in every nation:-
So believe that commona law which wareven after thirty
or forty years study aman can not makecould not be madeintelligible to a common ca-pacity, waswas
judge
in every large assemblage of men, thism
hard to believe beunderstand could not with any
will must be known: must be allowed.
would be seen some Principles and name does seem
not a be called common Law only by some
In a word, it must make
some permanent maxim, which would
to be the quaint conceit the one of an entymologist -^who derived aslucus a' non lucendo.
be the common ground work of every legis
as to As this law of Nature; it which was coeval with & to be binding over all mankind. coeval with mankind it was dictated
lation upon earth: There would be some oneIt must be the one
by a Legislator, who could neither err himself, nor lead others into
error, we shall certainly find it inthat every nation in every lange
general Criterion, to which all nations woulddo
assemblage men, has preserved it as the common groundwork of all
every theirits own laws, and appeals to it as the general criterion of
appeal as the measure of right and wrong.
right & wrong
Before our Author can take to himselfassume the credit
Now where are we to look for this; shall we
of having found out this general criterion, he mustgreat law of nature, universally
binding and universally obeyed he must take a wider circuit than the narrow limits of a little island.
Let him go to Sparta, where theft was permitted, allowed, may
applauded
Unluckily our Author has not told us in what
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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field
Image	002	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]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
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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