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however I will venture to say on this disgusting and distressing question,
this choice of evils. I refer to all
the instances in which Jurymen have been so
uniformly in the habit under the inspection
of the Judges and without any copr disapprobation
expressed on their part of violating their oaths:
and I aver without in my opinion the smallest hesitation as
my opinion and advice that the guilt of
perjury has beyond comparison a much stronger ground of extenuation
on the plan of political necessity in
the case of political libels than in any of
the cases above I have just referred to. To counsel perjury
in any instance case and for any
purpose is a cup pill too loathsome for me to endure my swallow:
once more I am not a Bishop, I am
not a Judge: thus much only will I say, that
if I were to perjure myself it should rather
be for something than for nothing. I would perjure
myself not to save an individual from
the punishment which the clear letter of a positive
law is has meant to subject him to, for
an offence really pernicious to society, but to save
him from the gripe of a law, which is of itself a greater

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10684
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