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14 Feby 1809

In the first of his two volumes† † I. 187 one of them, or ra
even a part of one of them, viz. the perjury, was an
imperfection not altogether so minute. Perjur Comprized
with "a simple he",‡ ‡ ibid. "perjury" was thus "a sin of greater
"deliberation. "The juror" (continues he on that occasion)
has the thoughts of God and of religion upon his mind at
the time: at least, there are very few who can shake them
off entirely. He offends therefore, if he do offend, with
a high hand, in the face, that is, and in defiance
of the sanction of religion. His offence implies a
disbelief or contempt of God's knowledge, power, and
justice, which can not be said of a lie where there
is nothing to carry the mind to any reflection upon
the deity, or the divine attributes at all."

Unless it be in the power of four intervening pages
to obliterate in the memory of the lecturer, all remembrance
of the last preceding one, it is with a full view of the juryman's
oath before his eyes, and of the perjury liable to be committed
by in the breach of it, that this invective against perjury the practice
when considered in the character of a "sin" was penned.

It is with this full view of that same oath, that speaking
of the form of it,‡ ‡ I. 192, this obscure and elliptical form,
"together with the levity and frequency with which it is
"administered, has brought about a general inadvertency
"to the obligation of oaths, which both in a religious and political
"view, is much to be lamented."

Identifier: | JB/035/307/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1809-02-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	307	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c16 / c11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10900
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