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4. Progress of ftates from small to great, and

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2. Power of impofing taxes,

3. Different forts of taxes, with their ad

vantages and disadvantages,

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10. Public police with refpect to the poor,

11. A great city confidered in physical, moral,

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Sect.

1. Principles and progress of reason,

Book 3. Sk. 1. continued.

Sect.

1. Principles of reafon,

2. Progress of reason,

Appendix,

A brief account of Ariftotle's logic. With

remarks,

Chap.

1. Of the first three treatifes,

2. Remarks,

3. Account of the First Analytics,

4. Remarks,

5. Account of the remaining books of the

Organon,

6. Reflections on the utility of logic, and the

means of its improvement,

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4. Principles of duty and of benevolence, 47 5. Laws refpecting rewards and pu

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6. Laws

Book 3. Sk. 2. Part. 1. continued.

Sect.

6. Laws refpecting reparation,

7. Final causes of the foregoing laws
of nature,

8. Liberty and neceffity confidered with
refpect to morality,

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1. Scotch entails confidered in moral and political views,

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2. Government of royal boroughs in Scotland,

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3. Plan for improving and preserving in order

the highways in Scotland,

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