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1828 Aug. 30
Blackstone
An equivalent More function still than order is to to command, is to bid. The words
command and order came to us both of them, from the Latin, through
the medium of the French originally from the Latin: the word verb to
bid, from our Saxon ancestor. Unfortunately for the substantive, to speak in the language of
command and order are have no correspondent Saxon
substantives, we have instead the substantive a bidding: but
that word sends us in idea – not to the thing nor to the armchair,
but to the pulpit of the Auctioneer.
a Having our feet on what is universally no less
universally intelligible than function familiar as well as universally intelligible, nor anything
like universally agreable. Command – order – are universally pleasant
enough to those by whom they are delivered; not altogether
so so to those by whom they are required to be
conformed to and obeyed.
Before we arrive at anything which is universally agreable One step more we must take on this glowing path
one idea more with its we must bring to
view – the idea of obligation. At the sound or sight this word many a time
contracts itself, itself – not only at the thought of
the unpleasantness of the thing signified, but also at the imagined difficulty
of arriving at the exact signification, or at any rate, at
the and efficient cause of it. One book there is, and that in
8vo Volumes which at one time was in the Bookseller
shops but by this time is at the Timber maker
or the (whichever the fittest place for it) the
title of it – an Essay or a Treatise (or something of that sort to that effect)
on Obligation.
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blackstone |
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jeremy bentham |
b&m 1828 |
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arthur moore; richard doane |
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1828 |
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