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<add>can</add> want any thing else: by money <add> it thinks</add> may any<lb/>thing be done, and without money, nothing. To<lb/>the reparations above mentioned it is an utter <lb/>stranger. <note>Let not <add>however</add> the present<lb/>generation be reproached<lb/>for the business of their<lb/>predecessors<lb/></note> <add>It looks seems as if </add> The law on this point <add>had</add> [seems to <lb/>have] been scribbled, before lawyers <add>knew what</add> [had acquired<lb/><add>was to have</add> the sentiments of gentlemen.<lb/> | |||
<p>The French law tells a man <add>the people</add> [that nothing<lb/>is of value in comparison with honour] that<lb/>in comparison with honour money has no value.<lb/>The English law tells them that he who instead<lb/>of honour gets money makes a good bargain. <add>The</add><lb/>In the French law every thing tends to elevate<lb/>the human character: in the English law, to debase<lb/>it. An Englishman can scarcely have set his<lb/>foot in France without observing how much lower<lb/>in certain lines of life the army more especially<lb/>the sentiments of honour and contempt of money<lb/>descends [among the French than among the English]<lb/>in that country than in England. If laws be allowed<lb/>to have an influence on manners, the differences<lb/>just mentioned <add>as to the former point</add> with regard to the former article, may<lb/>help to account for the differences with <add>as</add> regard to<lb/>the latter. [In England] I have frequently <add>been</add> importuned<lb/>by English soldiers for half-pence: offering to a<lb/>French soldier a present equal to a fortnight's pay<lb/>I have ow'd my pardon only to my ignorance.<lb/></p><pb/> | |||
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15
Indirect Legislation
Satisfying
can want any thing else: by money it thinks may any
thing be done, and without money, nothing. To
the reparations above mentioned it is an utter
stranger. Let not however the present
generation be reproached
for the business of their
predecessors
It looks seems as if The law on this point had [seems to
have] been scribbled, before lawyers knew what [had acquired
was to have the sentiments of gentlemen.
The French law tells a man the people [that nothing
is of value in comparison with honour] that
in comparison with honour money has no value.
The English law tells them that he who instead
of honour gets money makes a good bargain. The
In the French law every thing tends to elevate
the human character: in the English law, to debase
it. An Englishman can scarcely have set his
foot in France without observing how much lower
in certain lines of life the army more especially
the sentiments of honour and contempt of money
descends [among the French than among the English]
in that country than in England. If laws be allowed
to have an influence on manners, the differences
just mentioned as to the former point with regard to the former article, may
help to account for the differences with as regard to
the latter. [In England] I have frequently been importuned
by English soldiers for half-pence: offering to a
French soldier a present equal to a fortnight's pay
I have ow'd my pardon only to my ignorance.
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