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Offences against Condition — Adultery -pathy oaths can not prevail or does not so much
as act at all. But the moral sanction is
flatly against the manifesting a disposition to generosity in those
acts of such a kind.
manner

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Christianity — Sin If we look for the cause it may be
found in great measure in the popular notions of
purity derived from the Christian Religion.

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Facility why disapproval Whenever there are other principles the prevalence
of which is more frequent than that of
so difficult such exalted a generosity, & which might equally
produce the same effect it will therefore be more
natural to attribute it to those principles than to this

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A consistent with modesty In the eyes of persons of any degree of refinement
modesty enhances very much the value of this
kind of possession. But modesty (at least according
to the common notions of it exacts, what the Christian
Religion at least according to the common notions
of it exacts, that the act should in general be
looked upon as shameful and forbidden: that
upon particular conditions, rather an indulgence
to our infirmities and because it is unavoidable
than because it is strictly right,
she may be permitted to join in it with some
one single man with abundance of reserve. It
is necessary for the sake in some cases means of of continuing the species;
& since in that account it is impossible consistently with

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Identifier: | JB/071/094/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	21-32
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	094	Info in main headings field	offences against condition - adultery
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23497
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