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Punishment
Fifthly, so it be on account of some act that
has been done, it matters not by whom the act was
done. The most common case is for the act to have
been done by the same person by whom the evil is
suffer'd. But the evil may light upon a different
parson, and still bear the name of punishment. In
such case it may be stil stiled punishment in alienam
personam, in contradistinction to the more common
case in which it may be stiled punishment in
propriam personam. Of punishment in propriamalienam personam
and the several varieties it admitts of we
shall speak more ate large hereafter.
Sixthly
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NOTE continued
it's room. But to be familiar to the ear and to be clear
to the understanding are par very different properties in
language. The truth seems to be that no sentence that
contains in it a preposition, unless perhaps it be one that
is merely indicative of place or time, is at it's utmost
pitch of clearness. The sense of it It may always be render'd clearer by
it's being transmitted into a sentence or string of sentences
composed wholly of nouns and verbs or participles
without any adverbs or prepositions than unless perhaps
such as are merely indicative of place or time. For among
those parts of speech are to be found the only names
of real entities, the only words which being mentioned by
themselves suggest ideas, and that directly without the
help of similitude orand figure. That It would be inconsistent
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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