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If not his must be the consolation which was once a greater man's sense & Deo immatali
The Makers and Ministers Interpreters of the Law have holden that the
Workman who without sufficient warning given lets fall a
stone which kills a Passenger in the way is guilty to be holden guilty either of
is answerable criminally for his negligence
Manslaughter of his blood or Murder. It were well would they remember keep in mind
this case, and apply it to their own - The Law Final is
a perpetual Milstone hung over the heads of Men: and
no sufficient warning have yet been given methods have yet been taken to warn them
that they may escape it's fall - To point out the course
to be taken in order to give it with the most advantage is
all that an obscure Individual can perform - To give
To follow that belongs & it belongs to no other than the finger of Authority of Power.
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Ante One should think it required not much Logic to prove, nor much Rhetoric to persuade &c
Legislators write down Offences & Punishments upon paper
which they send in large quantities to lye up great Warehouses
every thing goes on as usual - they set down again and
write down Punishments heavier than at first before, disobedience
as before - They think imagine there is a certain Talismanic virtue in
Black Character marked upon a white ground which like
the Sympathetic powder of a once famous Knight, curing -
without any communication between the remedy and deseas'd
is a sovereign efficacy against those perrant humours which
they purpose to expell: They expect [that opposition]
should vanish as they write, they expect and are deceived.
PROMULGATION. Necessity of
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Impatient and enraged, they summon up their last desparate
remedy to their assistance: "decussito ad illud extremum algue ultimum Lenatus
consultum: they proclaim Death among the People they
now perhaps succeed - For the buzz of Death, while
weaker and more complicated sounds are dissipated ere
they reach the ear, is in virtue of it's loudness and simplicity
as in the case with those that are loud and simple is echoed transmitted under the case of echo for a while wish tolerable
tolerable fidelity and exactness.
They profit from this experience and from thence they
engender in their judgements this expiditing Aphorism that
Death, Death only is the specific for each class of Crimes:
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With equal propriety might the Surgeon while his patient
lay at the Hospital, shut himself up in his closet, pour
balsams and twine bandages in the air, then sally forth complain the limb grew worse and
for amputation worse munanomously for the worse .
Against so fatal and invertirate an infatuation it is
not sufficient to declaim; while the means of information, -
tho' obvious in the general have never as yet been printed out
in the detail that observation remains still a pretence -
wherewith remonstrances may be opposed.
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