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necessary."

The most persuasive, and thence
where erroneous and the most pernicious
mode of assertion is that conveyed
in the indirect form by implication
or assumption. In this preeminently
deceptitious mode is here conveyed
the proposition that there are cases
and those of ordinary occurrence in
which the punishment of Death is necessary
to the public safety. In the
general nature of things this cannot
be true for by imprisonment if perpetual
whatever danger the public might otherwise
be exposed to is no less effectually
prevented than it could have been
by death. From a maniac if left at
large, from a maniac especially if of
the furious cast, the public has incomparably
more to apprehend than
it can have from a malefactor of
the most atrocious cast: Since by a




Identifier: | JB/107/283/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

107

Main Headings

law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)

Folio number

283

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1821

Notes public

ID Number

35274

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