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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. &#x2014 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 17

Identifier: | JB/096/005/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

096

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

005

Info in main headings field

Image

003

Titles

section ii / of the authors account of the laws of nature

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c15 / c16 / c17 / c18

Penner

168

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

31009

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