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1 Feb. 1809
Accordingly, to much the moresurer sure of presenting mistakes
when at the conclusion of this as of other sermons
a reflection or two under the stile and title of practical
comescame to be made, a diversion is created, andthe mind of the hearer is made
is effectually termed used. from all such ideas as those
of publicity and evidence. "Which reflections show"
(says he) - Well? what is it that they What do they shew? Had the word "known"
stood alone, what they might have been thought to shew
would have been that the general rule acted under
the individual falls deemed to have come under that rule and
that the evidence by which the existence of these facts had been considered
as established there ought to be present to the
minds in which the knowledge in question is stated
as requisite to be planted? [+] But to the purpose of [+] This is what they
might have been understood thought
to shew and the word
known stood alone,
this is what they might
have been thought understood to
shew
the Reverend Doctor and his system any such conception
would have been fatal. Accordingly, and that, by the
show of severity the absence of efficiency might be
concealed from view, up starts a
crime, the imputation of
which he makes as if he would fasten upon the objects
of his protectionfavour: "which reflections show (says he, that the admission
"of extrinsic or oblique considerations, in dispensing
"the power of pardon, is a crime in the authors and
"advisors of such unmerited particularly, of the same authors
with that of corruption in a Judge."
With Of the same nature, yes: with only one difference,
and that so slight, as in the account of the Reverend
Doctor to have been passed by as not worth notice: and this is viz.
that, for corruption in a Judge, it is in some cases possible, (such
as receipt of hard money for a dastardly purpose) though in no
case
-case very easy, for the Judge to be punished, whereas for the sort of corruption which the Reverend Doctor has been describing, such as the obtaining of a pardon for in the sense of solicitation, friendship, conciliatory and gratifying political attachments, and so forth, the danger of punishment can not be stated with a serious face.
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