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Larceny — Decr 6 7
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of other men's labor which he has so many ways of obtaining with their consent over that those fruits in when suffer'd to spring
upon [directly of the former, indirectly of the latter] I say in some confused sort, for very clear it cannot be when &c since as this cause of acquiescence in exclusive property is
omitted by Mr Hume who rests the matter solely upon that first mentioned which depends on the
imagination, it is evident the general perception of this cannot in general be very clear.
a point which was the more important to those who made it, because it was not that object<add>the subject in question </add> but still
more valuable in the as a pursuit than in the as a possession was such towards which they were themselves as strong.
impelled drawn by their luxury as the bulk of the indigent and neglected people majority by their necessities
[The money is] They recognized their infirmities, & feeling filling that the rest restlessness of an idle and
life would at all events be perpetually driving them into transgression, they desisted from
the mitigation of those penalties which no severity under that instead of administration of which
they were the witnesses and the causes would deter them from frequently incurring.
We have seen therefore how <add>the label which from that period opens the track of penalties</add> The first of [therefore] of the Statutes which I know are takes up this offence upon
the sure footing on which it originally stood of what is called a Trespass: and it seems
to have been the of coupling with crimes of the highest class, an offence so
long known beholden by to our Ancestors under an inferior one remove than any decided regular judgement of
a difference in point of mischief, that has made the hand force of legislation unsteady wavering at acts in the
midst have seen of its most violent exertions: thus it is that it has taken it up the offence in justice piece - meal into the
higher class — that offence of his kind of it which nothing eyes <add>consists in stating & as in</add> & as places uninclosed being to this day left
behind that of his passing lethal this in such as are uninclosed: probably under [the influence of] some
such an Idea as that very proper one
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