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part of his people, exacting, <!-- written as two words, | part of his people, exacting, <!-- next word (meanwhile) Bentham has written as two words. Not sure how to treat it? This HAS NOT been added to the list of unusual spellings yet, though I have enclosed it in tags. Not sure how to treat it, whether you consider it a slip up, or a genuine unusual spelling. Please amend tags and add to list of unusal spellings as necessary --> <sic>mean while</sic>, | ||
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obedience to it from all. This, I repeat it, is | obedience to it from all. This, I repeat it, is | ||
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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