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with other points of law, penal law, take
its chance for being known, and so far
as it came to be known and to produce
that difference in conduct which as above
he takes for granted it would produce
the crimes in question would to use his
own words "not receive the punishment
"the ...... the public safely required."
But this is exactly what he said before.
For such is the Reverend Doctors zeal to
destroy |^^^| as he does with so much
complacency the God of Blackstones idolatry
in the character of the destroying Angel
that his Rhetoric has driven his Logic
out of his mind. -

"On the other hand" (continues he) "if,
"to reach these possible cases the whole
"class of Offences to which they belong be
"subjected to pains of death, and no
"power of remitting this severity remain
"any where, the execution of the laws will
"become more sanguinary than the public
"compassion would endure or than is necessary
to




Identifier: | JB/107/287/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.

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Box

107

Main Headings

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

Folio number

287

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

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

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1821

Notes public

ID Number

35278

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