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white sheet a man converted himself
into a ghost another whether in self
defence or under the notion of condine
punishment armed himself with a gun
killed ye ghost and was tried for it. I rather
think he was pardoned.
Note that in all these cases the quantum
of suffering can not but be in a
great degree dependant upon individual
feeling, or as medical men express
it in one word idiocyncracy. But from
divers circumstances idiocyncracy
may commonly be with more or
less correctness estimated such as sex, condition
in life, religion etc. See Introd. circumstances influencing sensibility.
Suppose any thing of a combination
to have place (conspiracy)
is I believe our word — the project
presents a demand for punishment
even in the eyes of those to whom it
may be apparent that no suffering
was really produced by it: for this
is the case of an attempt: a phenomenon
by which, successful or
unsuccessful mischief of the 2d
order viz at danger & fear of
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