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29 Jany 1809 Peines10

Paley 21 — & thus the power of Pardon should be altogether abolished
But here again may be seen another gratuitous
supposition, which lest the confusion should not be yet
thick enough, is added to slipt in along with the rest. This is - that
be any of by every person by whom this system of dispensing
with the laws nine times out of ten is not approved
of - an opinion that can not but be entertained is -
that no such power as the power which he means
by the power of as he calls of it this severity meaning
doubtless the power of pardon should exist in any any where
hands.

To this proposition for my own part I should suppose this exception
would not be difficult to find: and one at least I
am sure of.

Unfortunately for myself at least the difference in opinion between
the reverend Doctor and myself is as in regard to this
point as well as so many others total and irremediable inexorable.
According to him every thing ought to be done He is for having every thing done without reasons; [+] [+] for let him say what he will so long as I feel or fancy myself in possession of the sort of faculty called a reasoning faculty, I never can admitt under the character of a reason, a pretended reason for which he who calls on me to give admission to it in that character acknowledges himself unable to find words. According to the so far a part as concerns the difference between life and death, whatever is done is said to be done by the Theory, may ought to be within propriety be done without reasons (a) (a) present him the Note according
to me, nothing: according to him, death and destruction
ought to have plan, death and destruction about without reason: pardon, exempting from death, in
like manner without reason. According to me, death in
no case: with or without reason assigned pardon in every case with reason but in no
case without reason. Pardon in every case, but in every
case on condition of of reason assigned. To me it seemed
and some years before that philosophy of the Reverend Doctors was in print,
that the considerations capable on this occasion of making
a just good title to the character of reasons might all of them
be reduced and is one or other of a determinate number of
general heads: and of general heads so framed, that with a field before
time of such width as - together they allowed him, the head
sufficient guardian of the public security would have no reason to complain of being not being sufficiently at his ease. + +Give the grounds for pardon in a Note.

Identifier: | JB/107/210/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1	1809-01-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	21, 19
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	210	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	35201
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