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the fulfillment of the Royal engagements and
the violations of them such are the questions
and the options that are to be made.
This is the art of of which Lawyers
are now tired of hearing speaking or reading
reasoning which leaves it altogether at the
option of the man if power to
most agreeable and convenient
to himself.
Principles of Moral & Political Philosophy II. 274 "There are two methods" says he"
"of administering penal justice
"The first method assigns Capital punishments
"to few offences and inflicts it invariably.
"The second method assigns Capital
"punishments to many kinds of Offences
"but inflicts it only upon a few examples
"of each kind" Thus far D.r Paley. Not to
speak of any more there was however and
is yet a third, which though notorious
to the last degree of notoriety as well as
obvious to the last degree of obviousness neither
his learning nor his logic had sufficed
to present him with viz the not assigning
Capital Punishment to any Offence and thence
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