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"The wisdom and humanity of this design"
(continues he) "furnish a just excuse
"for the multiplicity of Capital Offences
"which the laws of England are accused
"of creating beyond those of other Countries."
Loose and Slovenly the expression here too;
but the Offences against Logic, not those
against Grammar are the transgressions
that belong to the present purpose.

Of a design he still continues to assume
to attest? assert and more than assert the existence
but where the head is except his own that
can be found to lodge it in, is a question
that has been put already. To put it
was not difficult to find an answer to
it is impossible.

"The charge of cruelty" (continues he)
"is answered by observing, that these
"laws were never meant to be carried into
"indiscriminate execution; that the legislature
"when it established its last and
"highest sanctions trusts to the benignity
"of the Crown to relax their severity as often as




Identifier: | JB/107/302/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

107

Main Headings

law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)

Folio number

302

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

a a/1

Penner

Watermarks

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

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1821

Notes public

ID Number

35293

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