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and no other can be expressed but by a
paraphrase substituting to an indeterminate
and unintelligible clause that which
presents itself as the nearest intelligible
one. On the part of any one, who has in
contemplation the commission of any
enormous crime, there exists not (let us
say any such knowledge of the absence
of all provision made for its punishment,
as will cause him to adventure
upon the commission of it. In this
sense insipid and trifling as the proposition
is it cannot be charged
with being untrue; but in the character
of an argument in favour of the system of
punishment of the excellency of which it
is employed to half persuade so what
does it amount to? Exactly as it would
apply and with the same force in justification
of any other system of punishment
which happened to stand annexed to
the offences here in question -any punishment,
- no matter what - so it were
but

Identifier: | JB/107/301/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	301	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]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public		ID Number	35292
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