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under one name is it fit you turn
short round and condemn it under
another. Not I indeed: in my
conception of the matter between the possession
and exercise of a power of pardoning
on the one hand and the exercise
of what is so well known under
the name of a dispensing power there
exists a very clear and distinguishable
difference. As to the power of pardon
the latitude that according to my
conception of the matter ought to be
given to it, as well as by what authority
has already been brought to view.
In the field of law as in the field of agriculture everything kept as far as possible in a state of wilderness under the influence of the same narrow & sinister Interest and by the same hands Such is not the field actually marked
out for in this as in so many other
portions of the field of laws all is yet
in the state of primeval barbarism —
all in a state of waste — no inclosure —
no boundary line any where.
But though boundary lines are here
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]] |
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