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PUNISHMENT. INCONCINNITY — Spur of ye occasion.
not so much what they taking it up of of themselves have thought fit to give, but what the party injured has thought fit to ask almost universally the measure of punishment will appear to have been the moderation of the party injured and by no means the original judgment of the Legislature. This owing to a default of system - they have not been prepared with any more steady measure to substitute to the terms of the request.
Offence the most dissimilar in their disruption & the most unique in their mischief have been jumbled together in one lumping prohibition, sanctioned by one undistinghishing punishment: it is because
for in this as in other Sciences, in multitudes experiments in great number without System & practise must come first & Systems to [that shall to] conduct just as shall those that shall which be made in future, afterwards.
prescripts of the Prince. Without any regard to general consistency & proportion The remedy has been fashioned to the numerical individual grievance which occasioned it to be called for
While the whole laid lies in such confusion they can never prevail upon themselves to look to more than a part at once.
PUNISHMENT. Inconcinniry. Causes of. Want of Gene-[BR.] [ ]-ral System. Measure resentment of Parties grieved.
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