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It is sometimes a useful & offenner still an amassing eng object to have the errors of a great man to their
"He must necessarily be subject to the
sources. — Whence How came our Author to fall into this
"will of his Creator:"— "He must inevitably
confusion of ideas? How could he descant so gravely on
"take the will of him, on whom he depends,
the action of inactive matter? On the obligation of
"as the rule of his conduct:"—"If is necessary
unconscious Being? On acts of superiority exercised &
"that he should in all points conform to
of inferiority allowed by one & the same Being over
"his maker's will." Ifthis representation
himself? On the face agency of a Being tied down by
be true, what occasion for a system of laws?
There was one thing our Author could do: that is,
absolute mere pity?— Gentle reader! He coned read.—
read. There is another thing he could not do: this is extract the spirit of what he
To what purpose does the learned profefsor
read! If in with this commentator, as with so many other Commentators: his ap-
But the powers of digestion do not always keep pace
-petite is better than his Digestion.
Take so much pains to prove a conformity
with the voracity of the appetite?
which does not exist
between the laws of England, and the laws
he had read. Montesquieu
[Our author had pored over] Montesquieu.— And
And written upon laws in general in a manner almost as unintelligible, the not to insignificant. The form of Montesquieu were the errors of an original genius elegantly under the ways of decency by his ! A great part of this may he has confronted to remain. The marks of Montesquieu are downties in our Author.
[There] he had fonndas follows:— "Tous les eteront E.p. du font I.l.C.l
is he so eloquent in enforcing obedience to
"Leurs loix: la Divinite a ses loux:—le monde materiele a ses
these laws? This is all labor cost if an is
"lois: les intelligences superieux a l'homme ont leurs
necessitated to obey the laws of his Creator
"loix, les betes ont leurs loix: l'homme a ses loix."—
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