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Of the Punishments belonging to the Moral Sanction.
When I say assignable I must be understood to speak
with reference to some particular time coincident with or subsequent
to that of the commission of the offence. At that very
— In determinateness
of the Moral Sanction
in this respect.
time then with respect to political punishment, that is with respect to
personal punishments and forfeitures, many of those particulars;
and sometimes all of them, are assignable and
may be foreseen. At the time the offence, theft suppose, is
committing, it may be foreseen that a number of stripes
given with such an instrument, and more than so many
nor fewer than so many, will be inflicted (in case of detection)
so many days or weeks hence at such a place and by
the hands of such an executioner: and backwards vice versa, when they
come to be inflicted, the punishment will be seen to be the
consequence of such an offence. And Now when the organical pain
produced by the punishment thus inflicted is over, all the punishment
for the offence, as far as depends upon the political
sanction, is commonly over and at and end, But as to the
ill offices, as well negative as positive, which constitute the substance and
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