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the whole amount of it will not be present to his the mind,
& thence too the less incommensurable it will be.
Being composed of a multitude of items of some he
will of the different items of which it is composed
some the delinquent will never have heard of, others he will
will have forgotten. They all of them enter into the
composition of the apt real punishment, but not
into that of the apparent punishment.

Penal nomenclature is of very great thus becomes an object of the very highest importance.
An obscure demo denomination spreads
a cloud over a mass of punishments a cloud which the
mind of can rarely if ever penetrate.

In this respect our law is remarkably defective.
The term felony, comprizes a multitude of different
lots of punishment, most of the greater part of
them to the persons in the class of offenders unknown, and therefore inefficacious. The
expression felony with benefit of Clergy, to the
unlearned, conveys the idea rather of a reward
than of a punishment. præmunire is no
longer intelligible: those who understand the meaning
signification of the latin word are far from
unders comprehending having any conception of
the punishment denounced by it.

Eni Enigmas like these, resemble those of
the Sphinx: punishment is the lore of him who cannot
being almost divine their meaning.

X. Popularity

In the rear of all these properties may be introduced
that of popularity, a very fleeting and indeterminate
kind of property quality which may belong to a lot of
punishment at one momn moment and be lost by
it the next. In of Strictly speaking however it
should be either in be denominated the absence of unpopularity,
for it cannot be expected that any punishment should
be positively acceptable the the people. The use of investing this introducing
property into the catalogue this property is chiefly to serve as
a unmeasu memento to the legislator. not to introduce employ

Identifier: | JB/141/031/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles	note by dumont
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f11 / f18 / f12
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::dusautoy & rump 1809 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48248
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