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desperate than in the case of a prison upon any
of the ordinary plans:— all these things considered
this conclusion may (it is hoped) be— that in
a case where by any failure of human prudence
the party failing would, as in the present case
be in so many shapes and in so high a degree
a sufferer, that same human prudence, on which,
in spite of all possible securities of every other Kind,
reliance must in every case be placed, is not, in the
present case, to be considered, as destitute of all claim,
to that sort and degree of confidence, which is so
unavoidably bestowed upon it in all other cases.
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To make use of every one of these securities, at all events, and
under all circumstances, without any exception
in any case, is more than I see any necessity
of pledging myself for: nor yet do they constitute
a compleat list of all the securities to which
it might eventually happen to me to have recourse.
Many of them will be attended with an expence,
which, if increased without necessity, would be so
much waste; but for which the justification, as well
on the score of necessity as of good economy, will
be the more compleat, the larger the scale is
on which the establishment is conducted.
23.
The faculty by which these securities were devised,
will not, I presume, be considered as putting an exclusion
upon the kindred faculty, by which the decision on the
question how many & which of them to employ—will
from time to time be pronounced.
I proceed with the objections.
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