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To be copied
For let us suppose a human legislator
to conduct himself upon the same principles in the same manner
as our Author attributes to supposes <add>represents</add> the Creator to act.
Let us suppose him to have published a law
which was to serve as the rule of conduct to his
people: let us suppose, that the principal 
person among his People had himelf violated this
law: that he had or afterwards secreted it from
the rest, and put it absolutely out of their power
to come at the knowledge of it: —added text This is surely the
very case which our Author supposes to have
happened to mankind in general: The legislator
still insists upon obedience to the same code
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| Identifier: | JB/096/008/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96. | |||
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| 096 | comment on the commentaries | ||
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| collectanea | 4 | ||
| recto | c21 / c21 / c22 / c23 | ||
| 168 | [[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]] | ||
| [[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]] | 31012 | ||