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Appendix III
Dean Andrews
2. Vansittart
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IV. This a resource
for defendant if guilty
not otherwise.
How should it not
be? 1. The reason
they find established:
as above: 2. The
matter of fact is
almost always true
3. 4 In the third fourth place, this plea is the constant refuge resource
of every Defendant whose guilt has deprived him of
every other.
[And let No man wonder that it should be.] Yes. and
how should it be otherwise? except in cases which
are not only seldom exemplified but impossible to
ascertain the existence of where they are exemplified, the
plea in point of fact the plea is true: ill will, or
as lawyers when they mean any thing when they have
what they mean which is not always the case when
they say motive, malice is the very efficient cause
without which prosecution never could take place.
Look at the criminal calendars — prosecutions and
consequently prosecutors — every year by thousands
High and low, rich and poor — are all these men
are they every one of them men of heroic virtue.
If yes the drinkers of wine: unless the such of them
when excepted as are opposers of Administrators, i.e. alias
of the Government alias of all government i.e. Levellers
Jacobins and Atheists. Oh yes those who are enabled
by successes to drink wine. But those whose drink
is no better than ale — are all these men or women
of heroic virtue. D The having had his pocket picked
in his shop pilfered from resides a man a man of
heroic virtue?
and sends acceptable
intercession.
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