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PREFACE.
lnuch the satne defect, as if a comnlent!~tor 011 the laws of
England sh.)uld contellt himself with stating upon each head
the comnlon la~v of the land, without taking any notice of acts
of parliameJlt ; or shaultl choose to give his readers the common
law in one hook, a.nd the statute Jaw in another. "When
the obligations of moraliiY are taught," says a pious and celebrated
writer, "let the sanctions of Christianity never bt;
forgotten: by \vhich it will te shewn that they give strength
~nd lustre to each other: religioll "ill appear to be the voi~e
of reaSOJ1, an