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5 Feby 1809
Peines
The state of the As to all circumstances not bearing directly
upon the point in question, the statement of the facts
is delivered in a garb purposely general vague and indeterminate:
and thus partly because they either did the information did not urgently not present
themselves to any itself in a form known
compliant in all its circumstances,
the particular individualizing and to the present purpose immaterial
circumstances either were not originally presented
to my ear ear or have since escaped my memory, but much
more because though means could be found of doing it in perfect with
safety, if the idea of directing the eye of scrutiny upon
the conduct of particular individuals is less expresslystudiously worded, as tending
to mischiefhuman suffering without use: for, if any conception of the matter
be correct, the fault lies not in it. said . best in the system
under which it has happened is then to act.
In a certain part of the country a malefactor of
the predatory class and when crimes had violence for their
regeneration, was at the long had at last run the misfortune to fallbe caught
into the Reverend Doctor's net. Upon his conviction, the
sense of the country marking him not as an offenderhad been manifested in a public manner, in
where whatsoever punishment attached to his crime ought
to be inflicted without mitigation. One of the persons, in whose
as above in some way or other the exercise of the power of pardon in the
instance in question depended, happened at the time to
have a relation who in the military service was occupied
in the fitting up of his corps. A pard The sum
of the country was as above known to be the man of influence, themalefactorruffian
obtained his pardon, and the bounty which should have
gone out of the relations further prospect. pardonsencouragement -
of a remit by whom the corps would neither have been tacuted
nor dishonoured, should have passed out of the relatives , stand in it.
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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jeremy bentham |
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