Chapter 18 FRAGMENT.-AN ESSAY TOWARDS AN HISTORY OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.

There is scarce any object of curiosity more rational than the origin, the progress, and the various revolutions of human laws. Political and military relations are for the greater part accounts of the ambition and violence of mankind: this is an history of their justice. And surely there cannot be a more pleasing speculation than to trace the adva

                         

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