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To be considered
at p.11
EXEMPTIONS ACCIDENT
11*
Their
It is scarce necessary to observe say, that
this wretched miserable fallacy depends upon
the supposition that all unlawful
acts are alike.
but deterred partly
from the expence &
of the difficulty partly
from the censorship
of the inability of the
enterprize
tho' difficult it
might perhaps not
be impracticable
by combining together
respectively all the
as which
can intrance
The fallacy consisted in the making no
distinction betwixt unlawful acts
as if all acts that were unlawful were the same,
and as if there was no evidence between
a man's being hanged (for that in those
times was the punishment for manslaughter
in all but those that could not read [] who could read and
suffering no punishment not being punished at all.
Such ghastly chasms are evident marks
of the hasty workmanship of a rude
age. We suffer them contrive them them to remove open
VOLTI
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