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It would be altogether useless, not to say
mischievous, to introduce into the penal Code
a great variety of modes of inflicting their
species of punishment. That which is in common
use, normally whipping, especially as the degree of punishment amount of the pain
introducible by it is susceptible of all then any degrees
of variation intensity, might of itself be sufficient, unless
it were that with a view to for the sake of analogy for the
sake of analogy in a certain classes of offences
a preference may be given to some other mode
of punishment may be entitled to preference with this exception, the multiplying
with the instruments of punishment,
subject would be apt to endanger the bringing into an ,
without corresponding advantage, the whole
penal system.

under the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa, among the other works that
the were undertaken with a view to the amelioration
of the laws, a description ordered a collection to the mask of
all the modes of torture & of punishment & of was compiled of the various modes of inflicting organical pain or of
torture in use in her dominion? It formed a large
folio volume in which are not only described all
the & & represented by engraving
the various engines machines employed for these purposes,
but a detailed account is given of the various
manipulations of the executioner. This work may
expand to for a few days only. The Prince
Kanitz Kaun Kaunitz, then prime Minister, caused cau
it to be . He was apprehensive
and certainly not without reason, that the sight of such
work was calculated to produce not the effect
intended by it - to deter men from the commission
of the offences - but a detestation of the whole
penal system. That part of the work to which
the popular feelings would be naturally most was
that of part describing the instruments for producing
torture: it has since been abolished in all the all
throughout the Austrian States; and it seems reasonable to suppose not all
improbable that the publications of this work may have
been among the circumstances that contributed to
their fortunate event. happy event. If so few books have some+
+ men good to the world
for the lives they may have
staid in it.

Identifier: | JB/141/049/002 "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	049	Info in main headings field	section 2 examination of simple afflictive punishment
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8 / f5 / f9 / f6
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::dusautoy & rump 1809 [britannia and shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48266
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