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Laborious Punishment examined.

occasioned by the other. So that upon the whole it has
the advantage in point of Oeconomy over every other
mode of Punishment but pecuniary.

3. It seems to stand equally from clear of objection in point
of Equability. As to the restraint it involves, it accommodates
itself of itself to each man's circumstances. For
with respect to each man it has the effect of restraining
him from following those occupations whatever
they may be, which are to him any most pleasurable.
The [positive] servitude itself will indeed be
apt to sit heavier on one man than other.
But the difference will not be very great if the
destination of sentence be duly attended to A man
who has not been used to any kind of labour will suffer a good deal more
for some time at least than one who has been used to labour, though of a
different kind or degree from that in question.
But this inconvenience may be pretty well obviated by a
proper attention [in the Judge] to the of
the circumstances of individuals.

4. In point of variability thought it is not perfect throughout,
yet it is as perfect as far as it goes. In less than In a very
low a pretty high degree it is not capable of subsisting; It falls short on account of
and this the Infamy it involves⊞ ⊞ at least in a country governed by European manners. One of the most odious acts of the reign of the Emperor Joseph II was the sentencing persons of high rank to labour in the public works. The Protestants of France considered the condemnation of their person religious ministers to then work in the galleys as a personal insult done to themselves. In this respect then it
falls short of Pecuniary Punishment. After that exception
it is manageable variability capable of being capable of being varied to the utmost nicety: being
variable as well in respect of intensity, as of duration.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	laborious punishment examined
Image	001	Titles	frugality / equability / variability in magnitude / exemplarity
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4 / f11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	ac
Marginals		Paper Producer	franz ludwig tribolet; ann elizabeth lind
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48305
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