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Analogy.
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punished with ordinary death, and is in France by
burning but one, of a much deeper die. The offence
of attempted by the Canaanites if it had been perpetrated would have carried with it two enormous aggravations. 1st the hos a violation of hospitality, an offence
of much greater enormity malignity and more strongly
reprobated in a rude ages than in a civilized state
of society: 2dly Actual Personal violence: by which circumstance
alone the offence stood raised as much above
the level of the offence that which under the name in
question men ordinarily have in view, as Rape is
stands lies above that of simple Fornication.
From p.7 Inundation
By ind inundation I mean the act of him who
with a mischievous intent, is a means of laying
a country under water.
NOTE continued.
From p.7.
upon the footing of ordinary devastation. If mischief a loss
of property to such a value be done measured, whether it is by fire
or any other agent makes no difference. If there
be any reason why devastation committed by
fire should be more final than if com devastation
committed by other means, it is because
by fire mischief may be done to a greater amount may be a committed than by any other means excepting
that of inundation. But in this case not the instrument, but the amount
of the mischief is the as it ought to be the measure of the punishment;
and not the instrument.
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