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Feb 7 1809
Peines
of the god like attribute of mercy
apply itself to the pocket
of some person or other, official or professional, concerned
in the manufacture of indictments, with the flaws and
reputed flaws of which they are respectively susceptible.
As in the case of of the avowed pardon it belongs not to
any private hand either to count reckon up the number of the or to point out the limitationsindividuals
of persons by whose exertion, joint or several,
it may happen to the benignity of
the crown to be thus
displayed, neither does it in the case of the virtual
pardon as above described. Tasks of this sort wait -
and let in are undertaken to say for how many ulterior
centuries they have yet to wait - for the important problem
hand.
Maintain two points of difference between these two important species may already be
stated between the two species. one operating giving extension to as a check
upon the benignity in question,, the other giving extension to it operating as a check to it.
In the case of the avowed pardon, darkness impenetrable motives envelopes
cross the face of that deep the whole transaction, with every individual concerned who finds his in
it. position in it. What the left hand doth, the right hand knoweth
not, or at least needeth not to know: the complexion of the good that is the particular hand or hands by which
always done is done - the reward that which at any time every prude accompany
or follow it - are all protected <add>all find their protection unwrapt or guarded from the eye of inquisitive impertinence,"</add> were both envelopedwrapt up in by the same veil
of secrecy.
Identifier: | JB/107/246/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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