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and ethical command tons in Scripture : Do 



AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY. NoW, if a 



person be possessed of a park, free warren, 

 or plantation, paled in, I believe the law 

 of the land gives him great power and 

 command, more than it can do, or does in 

 other places ; but, sanctioned as he may be 

 by law, I will ask him hy the law of honor, 

 whether he be justified in doing an injury 

 to a neighbour, who has no intent of design 

 to molest him, or interfere with his private 

 concerns ? 



For instance, 1 will first state the case in 

 the strongest light, then in a most unjustifi- 

 able one : — A qualified man has a manor 

 of his own, or has permission, from the 

 owner of the land, to sport on his lands, 

 which is equally as good. These lands run 

 up close to the park, free w^arren, or planta- 

 tion, of another person : a hare gets up ; a 

 valuable pointer follows that hare, jumps 

 the paling, and, in half an hour after his 

 return, lies down and dies, poisoned, at his 

 master^s feet. Now I will state the case in 

 quite a different point of view: — A quahfied 

 man, in the evening, is returning to the 



