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a Parliamentary one. By the Reverend
Doctor at least, a professed teacher
of logic had his logic been of a complexion
fit for use this error at least
might have been avoided. Must needs needed
he then to be told that the number
of Statutes creating capital offences
might have been any number of
thousands of times greater than it
is without being half so sanguinary
as it is or filling half so full as it
has done the delectable net he speaks
of? Needed he to be told that metal
after metal and plant after plant
have to this purpose by successive
Statutes been taken for the subject
of legislation? and that on the ground
of as on so many other
parts of the field the scantiness of the
provision made is no less flagrant
than the exuberance?
Every crime; by mere number and without
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