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13.
C
Forfeiture of Reputation
Upon looking over the list of punishments we shall
find that it is to those which come under the name of
corporal personal punishments that this property of reflecting an extraordinary
degree of infamy is almost exclusively confined.
Pecuniary punishments, which are the most common, are
attended with a less degree of infamy than any other: unless
it be quasi-pecuniary punishments; which in this respect
as in most others are pretty much upon a par with
pecuniary. Next to these come the several modes of confinement;
among which if there be any difference,
— Imprisonment and Loco-exclusion seems the mildest in this respect, next to them Banishment, and Imprisonment
the severest. Of restrictive specific restraints and active punishments at
large, they are so various that it is not easy to give an
account. In general they seem to be on a footing with
those punishments that are mildest in this respect unless
where by means of analogy they are so contrived as to
reflect and aggravate in a peculiar manner the infamy
of
The greatest corporal punishment
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