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We may rest therefore assured, that it was dictated promulgated in the clearest terms,
& in the most so public a manner, that it must come to the
Knowledge of every one who was to be bound by it. —
I have used the term promulgated here, instead of our Author's
word of dictated, because it is more familiar in Jurisprudence.
but clearly this is our Author's means meaning. By dictating, he means declaring To dictate is to deliver
with Authority: and though a prince might may dictate in private
to his Secretary yet if what he dictates is to find his whole
people, he will take care that it be promulgated to all his people,
in a manner that leaves them no doubt of it's coming from
him. And thus he may properly enough be said to dictate to his
people.
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applauded, rewarded, & recompensed; and the maladresse adroitnesse
only was punished: Still regrets To the
Scythiane were where no crime was s severely
punished as theft: Shall To the Jews,
where respect to the maintenance of our parents is recommended
as one of the first of the Virtues?
To the Savag Indians, who make their aged
Parents mount upon the oak, and if they
cannot keep their hold against all the efforts [resist the violent shaking of] a nervous
arm, can make to shake them down dispatch them without pity?
When our Author has examined with ever so little attention
Let us see now whether 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 nations, can every way be re-
confess that he has not discovered, at least not pointed
universally known, universally obeyed? He has
conciled to such of those eternal and immut-
out to his readers this permanent maxim, this general
Criterion, 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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