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10 July 1810 5 Fallacies Ins or Eitherside Ch. Causes and Obstacles §.1 Universities. I. Virtue Virtue Universities
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If man be good make every man swear to the Statutes.
At the time of that ceremony, which in the metaphorical language of the place is called matriculation, the ceremony on the performance of which the youth becomes a member limb of the Kind Mother a body of laws constituting a closely printed 12. volume is put into his hand, and at the same time an oath is administered to him he is made a form of words is put into his mouth and repeated by him by which he binds himself under the sanction of an oath he is understood to bind himself to observance be paid without exception to every particle of law contained in it.
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Of this oath the violation is constant, universal and notorious. (a)
(a) Note stating the some of the instances
Time it is that of the great bulk of the ordinances thus violated nothing can exceed the frivolousness: nothing consequently the innoxiousness of the acts by which the violation of them is performed committed accomplished. But be the importance of the transgressions themselves ever sot great or ever so inconsiderable, this sanction employed to enforce observance, the sanction violated by non- -observance is still the same.
[Murder is an atrocious deed to going abroad without having put under the dime a piece of lawn called a bund is an insignificant omission — but if a promise be given not to do either of those acts, and in the wording of promise the ceremony employed is the same, and that ceremony the ceremonies is called an oath or the taking of an oath, if that oath be violated, perjury is committed, and so far as concerns the ceremony, the mode and the violation of it the perjury, the impiety is the same.]
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