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<p>code of laws, yet knowing that it has never | |||
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been published to his people, that they have | |||
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no possible means of attaining to the knowledge | |||
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of it, he refuses to republish it at all | |||
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for a long series of Years: and then republishes | |||
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it only to a small, and inconsiderable | |||
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part of his people, exacting, <!-- written as two words, not one --><sic>mean while</sic>, | |||
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obedience to it from all. This, I repeat it, is | |||
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exactly what our author/I must say impiously | |||
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/dares to suppose of the Creator of the | |||
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universe. Caligula himself could not act | |||
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more cruelly, who/as our Author relates | |||
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from Dio <unclear>Cafsius</unclear>/ wrote his laws in a very small Character, | |||
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and hung them up upon high pillars the more effectually <add><del>small</del></add> <gap/> the people: <add>But</add></p> | |||
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code of laws, yet knowing that it has never
been published to his people, that they have
no possible means of attaining to the knowledge
of it, he refuses to republish it at all
for a long series of Years: and then republishes
it only to a small, and inconsiderable
part of his people, exacting, mean while,
obedience to it from all. This, I repeat it, is
exactly what our author/I must say impiously
/dares to suppose of the Creator of the
universe. Caligula himself could not act
more cruelly, who/as our Author relates
from Dio Cafsius/ wrote his laws in a very small Character,
and hung them up upon high pillars the more effectually small the people: But
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[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]] |
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[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]] |
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