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PUNISHMENT FORFEITURE CORRUPTION
I would have given much that illustrious name of York had not been tarnished with the indiscriminate defence of Forfeitures. If instead of persons of the same lineage, all
persons of the same name were to be despoiled
of their Estates, there would not want some
Lawyer would not be wanting to stand up for the wisdom of the
provisions, to gather up scraps from ancient classical declaimers for make-weights to his argument and to urge gravely that the prospect
of so wide a torrent current of misery issuing
from his nigh guilt, must needs make a
salutary impression on the mind of the offender.
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PUNISHMENT FORF. Corrupt. of Blood
In this upon any principle there is a great
wash of misery since the consequences extend
far beyond a Man's Wife and Children whose
Interests alone a man can ever rationally be supposed
to be more sensible to than his own, Observe that the punishment which is always unjust is the only one which the King can never pardon. it extends
to remote & collateral Relations; & has
a thousand latent consequences that are not seen: accounts of Battles for want of the Ideas of misery being particularly present to their mind tis
from their being not seen, that men bear the thoughts of
subsisting with so much indifference: just as they do the
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of dissocial vice. appositely to manifest the force of these reasonings such reasonings as these.
PUNISHMENT. Corruption [ ] might as well be cast on the Name as Lineage
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