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