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