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and highest sanctions" as often as circumstances
of any sort positive or negative
are heard to call for such relaxation
why not in its legislative capacity
as well as by a never ending and indefatigable
repetition in its executive character?
Aye but for answer to this
question comes the Doctors fundamental
distinction and discovery of a Set of indescribable
circumstances which it is so
easy to perceive after they have happened
and so impossible to express before.
"Upon this plan" (continues he) "it is enough
"to vindicate the lenity of the laws, that some
"instances (the word some is by him printed
in Italics) "are to be found in each class of
"Capital Crimes which require the restraint
"of Capital Punishment and that this restraint
"could not be applied without subjecting the
"whole Class to the same condemnation."
More loosness of expression, more confusion
of ideas; the loosness of expression having
the confusion of ideas for its cause: the design with
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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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