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We may rest <add>therefore assured, that it was dictated in the clearest terms,</add>
applauded, rewarded, & recompensed; and the maladresse adroitnesse
& in the most <add>so public a manner, that it must come to the</add>
only was punished: Shall To the —
Knowledge of every one who was to be bound by it. —
Scythiane were where no crime was s severely
I have used the term promulgated here, instead of another's
punished as theft: Shall To the Jews,
word of dictated, because it is more familiar in Jurisprudence.
where the maintenance of our parents is recommended
but clearly <add>this is our Author's means meaning. By dictating, he means declaring to dictate is to deliver
</add>
as one of the first of the Virtues?
with Authority: and though a prince might <add>may dictate in private</add>
To the Savag Indians, who make their aged
to his Secretary yet if what he dictates is to find his whole
Parents mount upon the oak, and if they
people, he will take care that it be promulgated to all his people,
cannot keep their hold against all the efforts [resist the violent shaking of] a nervous
in a manner that leaves no doubt of it's cunning from
arm can make to shake them down dispatch them without pity?
him. And thus he may properly enough be said to dictate to his
When our Author has examined with ever so little attention
people.
this different conduct
these discordant actions of different nations, he will I think
let him tell us what is become of his great law of nature
of different
confess that he has not discovered, at least not pointed
universally known, universally obeyed? He has
and to his readers this permanent maxim, this general
, this immutable law of nature nature
table laws of good and evil, as our Author
extracted one or two of the principal articles of
has thought fit to specify? These are that
this his law of Nature: such as "that we
"we Where When
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section ii / of the authors account of the laws of nature |
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