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thence not inflicting it at all as in the
Russian Empire for example not to speak
of Tuscany or to look out for other instances.
Thereupon follows a Critical Essay of
three and half of 800 pages; and
which though thus long and moreover confused
and desultory may be followed not
altogether without fruit were it only that
it might be seen to what degree of perfection
the debility of the reasoning faculty is capable
of being brought by the bondage of subscription.
"The latter of which two methods";
(continues the Reverend Doctor) "has been
"long adopted in this Country, where of
"those who receive sentence of death,
"scarcely one in ten is executed"
Such is the Statement given of the practice
and now under the notion of an indication of the
by which the conduct of the
Authors of this State of things may have
been determined comes a vindication of it
"And the preference of this to the former
"method" (as if there were no other) "seems to
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