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Of Falshoods in general
particular there would need to be abundance of definitions
and examples in order to render the limits of the offence
clear on all sides, and prevent it from being either too
much narrowed on the one hand,so as to give a total or
partial impunity to atrocious guilt, or too much extended
on the other, to the oppression of those whose
transgression is of a more venial nature. Many such
explanations, were of a the present work capable of serving as a complete Code for practice,
it might have been I should think it proper to subjoin. them They are however
united for the present; in the first place on account
of the addition they would make to the voluminousness
of the work; in the next place because it would be
impossible after all to bring them to perfection without having the
local circumstances of some particular country in view:
for example, the particular species of property; the particular
ranks and dignities; the particular trades and
employments established in that country; all which objects
as we have seen may come to be at stake in the case
upon
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