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C Punishment distinguished & defined

been incurred. An act of Punishment, an act whereby pain is produced

Notes.

equivalent to the pain he had been made to suffer by the offence, whether
any Juryman was preserved from the like suffering by the
influence of this verdict, these are questions concerning facts of
which some lie within the knowledge of the parties and can
be answered by the parties and them only, others lie not within
the knowledge of any body nor can be vouched by any
one.

+[a] – I might equally have said "for some Act" &c that has been done.
What then is it we mean when we speak of pain as having been inflicted
produced for an Act? It is that the idea of the commission of the
Act is in the mind of him who is the author of the pain, among
the causes of or the motives to the Act by which he inflicts it.

The above exposition will be apt at first sight to seem
superfluous: since the preposition for is as familiar as any word
that could be substituted in its room. But to be familiar to the
ear and to be clear to the understanding are 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 its utmost pitch of clearness. It may
always be rendered clearer by being transmitteduted into a sentence or
string of sentences composed wholly of nouns and verbs or participles

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	21
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	034	Info in main headings field	punishment distinguished & defined
Image	003	Titles	note
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