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C 7 Of Simple Personal Injuries
walls will stop him, if there is no such thing
as security for you any where. People who come
to know of this understand themselves to have
amongst them a man, against whom, if provoked,
there is no where any security: and
this reflection adds proportionally to their
alarm
4. On the other hand if the quarrel happen'd
in the night that same night insomuch that you had time to reflect on the danger before it came upon you or if on other accounts
you were on your guard, the circumstance
of it's being night adds makes no material
difference. Neither is the circumstance of the
forcible irruption so alarming or dangerous,
when a man can see how to take measures
for escaping or defending himself.
Question XV
Why concealment is made a ground of aggravation.
Reasons
1. Because it adds to the mischief of the offence.
It adds terror to the smart: augmenting the sufferings
of the party injured by the apprehension of simi
a succession of similar injuries, to which he can
see no certain end.
2. Because it detracts from the value of the punishment
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