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Punishment distinguished & defined.
An Act of Punishment
defined. produced with the direct intention of producing it, on account of some
act that has been done or omission that has been incurred.
21.
The above Definitions
why thus large. These definitions may at first sight perhaps appear too
large. My meaning however was to embrace every thing that has been
—
Note
participles and such adverbs and prepositions as are merely indicative
of either place or time. Fo 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 and figure. It would be inconsistent
with the present design, nor do I feel myself as yet altogether
qualified, to anter any deeper into this subject. That the
plainest and most ordinary discourse is necessarily figurative
and full of incessant fictions the reader may see admirably
well proved by Mr. D'Alembert in his Melanges Philosophiques+: where he may also observe how particularly this
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