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with which the paragraph commenced
being forgotten and before the conclusion of it further
viz the opposite one taken up instead of it.
The vice with which, at the commencement
of the paragraph be stated, in the way of
supposition, as charged upon the system,
was the vice of cruelty and this is the
charge against which, at that period it was
his object and he undertook the defence of it.
In this view what, on this occasion, supposing
any such word as the word lenity employed
supposing any such quality as lenity states
as belonging or not belonging to the laws,
it was requisite for him to the word to prove
and produce a persuasion of the existence
of it. Instead of this what does he?
he supposes this very quality charged upon
the laws as belonging to them, and that
in a vitious degree, and by way of
defence against this charge, undertakes
to vindicate it that is admitting now
instead of proving—admitting now what he
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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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