CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7] — Page 211

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10.

"pour lequel elles sont failes, que

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grand hasard

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oller

une autre.

"la nature et are

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91

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rapportent

principe du

qui est étable – elles papporter à Sa

la

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" inclination à leurs moves,

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entr'elles, elles

leur origine.

legislateur

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en

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l'object

avec l'ordre.

die

des

lesquelles elles sent

And Thr William Jones in

his preface.

still onere

to the laws

207

of Genu appropriately memarks

" that the best intended legislative

17

provisions would have

"Beneficial effect

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"Course.

at all in.

at first,

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short

of lime, unless they

" congenial to the disposition and. habits, to the religious foragitions

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"and approved and immemorial

usages of the people for whom.

They

enacled

Whatever the Chinese

may

laws

attempt

be therefore, it

beyond doubt that any the part of Jessign

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