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neither does it in the case of a
virtual pardon as above described.
of this sort wait and let no
one undertake to say for time coming
they have yet to wait
for the competent public
Meantime two points of difference
may already be stated between the
two species, one operating as a check
on the benignity the other giving extension
to it. In the case of the avowed
pardon darkness impenetrable envelops
the whole transaction with every
individual concerned in it. What
the left hand doth the right hand
knoweth not, or at least needeth not
to know — the good which is always
done — the reward which at any time
may precede accompany or follow it,
are all protected from the eye of inquisitive
impertinence. In the case of the
virtual pardon (the eclipse is but a
partial one — the darkness covereth not the
Identifier: | JB/107/318/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
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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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