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volume, he is occupied. Nothing of all
this have Mr Peel's collaborators or sublaborators
so much as professed to do: whether
it is or is not in their power, is best
known to themselves. What shall we do
to be saved — "is a questions which, 1827
years ago, was thought as not unreasonable
one; nor will the degree of reasonableness,
it should seem, be much varied,
whether upon being damned" or "from being
hanged", are the words with which the ellipsis
is filled up. No such information, however,
if willing, was Lord Hale able to give, while
hanging men for larceny, or women for witchcraft.
But hanging men for they know
what would be theory: hanging men for
nobody knows what, is practice; and how
bad a thing theory is, and how good a thing
practice, no one who has not had the advantage
of sitting at the feet of Lord or
Lady Eldon, can be at a loss to know.

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Copy
J. B. to Peel. Original sent on
predate 26 March 1827.

Sent, according to announcement,
with compliments from Mr J. Bentham,
who forbears writing on the title page
a name which might render it offensive
to eyes under which it might happen to
Mr Peel to feel inclined to place it.
Volte
Should

Identifier: | JB/011/259/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1827-03-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	259	Info in main headings field	copy jb to peel - original sent as per date
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3956
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