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-tained is that no such power as the
power of remitting this severity, meaning
doubtless the power of pardon should exist
in any hands.

To this proposition I for my own part
should suppose that exceptions would
not be difficult to find and one at least
am sure of.

Unfortunately for myself at least
the difference of opinion between the Reverend
Doctor and myself is in regard to this
point as well as so many others total
and irreconcileable. He is for having
every thing done without reason; according
to use, nothing: according to him
death and destruction ought to have
place — death and destruction dealt
about without reason. Pardon, exempting
from death in like manner without
reason. + + To let him say what he will so long as I feel or fancy myself in possession of the art or faculty called a reasoning faculty I never can admit under the character of a reason a pretended consideration for which he who calls on men to give admission to it in that character acknowledges himself unable to find words. According to him then so far at least as concerns the difference between life and death whatever is done or said to be done by the King may with propriety be done without reason. According to me death in no
case, with or without reason assigned;
pardon in every case with reason, but in

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	288	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	35279
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