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PUNISHMENT. MEASURE RESPONSIBILITY.
who is to strong <add>in the instance of against which the current of popular indignation</add> could never reconcile themselves to what would
tune to them who can scarcely be brought to enter come in into these refinements, a partial distinction to their
prejudice, a barrier scarce possible to be surmounted —
Insomuch that, considering how so few are the crimes of a
high nature committed by persons of such a
rank as would come place <add>bring them</add> within the time of mitigation,
the saving of misery to them such In in the difference
between the ordinary & the mitigated The objection is, that the quantity and quality of the Punishment is by this means measured determined not by the exegencies of the Public, but by the temper of the person injured — The answer is - . Punishment
would by no means compensate the
misery produced by the sentiment of imaginary
injustice oppression exercised to in their disfavour in those who would fall without
it added to the uneasiness which the expression
of that sentiment their dissatisfaction tho' it were confined to murmurs might occasion in those of
the former.
PUNISHMENT MEASURE - Limitations Response bill
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