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would you retrieve them? In Civil cases,
as often as it happens to you to be on a
Jury, and the value at Stake is such
as makes it worth your while, if on the
wrong side there is consciousness of
wrong, and the case next to a desperate
one, the more depraved the chacter of the
wrong doer, the more assured you will
be that an offer to share it with you will
not be refused.
In penal cases, keep
on the look out for the richest criminals -
Defendant, with another
man's money in your hands, look
well over the Jury list: observe whether
there be not this or that one of them,
whose surely effectual service may be
gained by appropriate liberality.
Murderer, Incendiary, go
through the whole list: if one experiment
fails, pass on to another: you have nothing
to lose by it: you have every thing
to gain by it.
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=tity, proportioned to the duration of it, from
the slightest imaginable uneasiness, to a
torment such as, if endured, would extinguish
life: but which no man in the situation
in question, was ever known, or
so much as supposed to have endured.
A compound of several pains
in this same pain: principal ingredients,
the pains of hunger and thirst: Slightest
and first commencing ingredient, the
pain of privation, consisting in the non-exercise
of whatever other occupations would
have been more agreeable.
Under these circumstances
if so it be, that, as soon as the evidence
with the Judges observations on it, if any
are at a close, either of the two mutually
opposite opinions is really entertained by
all of them, on the part of no one of them
does any breach of his oath take place:—
as little, on the part of any one of them,
does pain in any degree take place: the
verdict is pronounced by the Foreman,
without their going out of the Box.
But, as often as, instead
of their delivering their verdict, they withdrew
into the room prepared for them,
then it is that a difference of opinion
has place: and then it is that, on the
part of all twelve of them together, the
appropriate operations begin to be per=
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