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Feby 1809
Jury Trial
(10)
If the practice lying were an evil, and it any reduction in the
quantity of it an object of worth regarding, a mode cause
in by which it would be reduced to the minimum is not
unobvious. Let the When the members of the Board have
disagreed among themselves in whatsoever proportion may
have seemed meet, let the declaration of unanimity be
the work of some clerk: in this way, at the expense
of one a single scape-goat, to whom such compensation may be
made as shall be have been thought proper, any member of was
supposing always lying that lying to be a sin, and a sin not commissible
but by express words will may be saved according
to the number of the members, i.e. of the greatest possible
, be saved.
I forget in what public body was it the Irish Parliament this species of economy
used at one time to be pursued in practice.
Resolved, nemine contradicente: "Fratris egregii concordis"!
Universal and uninterrupted harmony!
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