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C 7 Breach of Trust Diss.
is much upon a par. The trust It is greater in any
of these cases than in the preceding case of indolence.
For Commonly the motive is more powerful; and at any
rate detection legal proof and consequently punishment is more
uncertain.
Punishment An obstruction in two may be with
respect to the quantity and quality of the punishment
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As to sport or wantonness it is mentioned on may be proper
this occasion only that nothing which is put forth just to mention it for the sake of conformity; though
may be the instances of it's surmounting exerting an
so strong an obligation infl an influence strong
enough to outweigh the obligation of a trust behove
to be but rare. In this case if on the one hand
the active utmost interest which the motive can create
by the is but weak, so that there is the less force
for the punishment to overcome; on the other
hand the giving way making a sacrifice of duty on such an occasion to
so slight an interest is a proof of such a
depravity of disposition as it must needs seems to require
a particularly strong dose of punishment to correct:
so that the ground for diminution may be thought
to be exactly enough balanced by the ground for
increase. But were it otherwise, the case is so too rare
as not to warrant the changing of the body of the laws
with the incumbrance of a separate provision. Before
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