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20 Jany 1809 Peines Paley's Net

in an answered upon to himself</unclear>

"The wisdom and humanity of this design"(continues he)" furnish
"a just excuse for the multiplicity of capital offences,
"which the laws of England are accused of enacting beyond
"those of other countries." Loose and slovenly the expression
has too: but among such offences again the offences against logic not those
against grammar are the transgressions that belong to
the present purpose.

Of a design he still continues to assume -to affect and more than affect the
existence. But where the head is, other than his own excepted his own
that can be found to lodge it in, is an enquiry a question that has that
been put already. To put it was + not differents: to + Vide suprise?
will come presumably to be made.
answer it find an answer to it is impossible.

"The charge of cruelty" (continues he)"is answered
"by observing, that these laws were never meant to be
"carried into indiscriminate execution; that the legislation,
when it establishes its last and highest sanctions,
" trusts to the being of the crown to relax their severity,
" as often as circumstances appear to palliate the offence,
"or even as often as their circumstances of aggravation
"are wanting, which rendered this rigorous interposition
"necessary".

"Answered? - Yes indeed:- but how? in a contrary state: <add>sort, yes: but in what sort?</add>
These laws never meant to be carried into indiscriminate
execution? No certainly:surely even so long as any such power
as the power of pardon is known to exist, any other penal
laws, of the penal class, that can be named. But in this
observation what is there that applies with any exclusive or
peculiar form to the particular class of penal laws known in question? these to get by
which death is appropriated for a punishment?

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Identifier: | JB/107/227/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1	1809-01-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	227	Info in main headings field	peines paley's net
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e26
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	35218
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