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Analogy
Ins:
5. The time during which the application is to be
continued. Such a number of minutes for example
or moments.
A machine would be necessary To prevent the
flame of the lamp, and to fasten down the criminal,
a particular kind of machine would be convenient; this
would add very much to the terror of the operation.
As a means of rendering the punishment
terrible upon the face of the description, which
is the principal object, a cut of representing a
criminal on stretched on the machine, and undergoing the
operation should be annext to the Law.
A surgeon should attend to superintend the execution,
and see that it is not carried beyond what
the patient can bear. This precaution as taken
at present in the whipping of Soldiers. An Oath
should be administered to him on the spot, for
the strict and exact observance of the directions
of the Law.
If all crimes of indigence were reduced to Theft
and Sharping, society I should think, how great
a numerous soever were the instances of such offences,
would not have any great reason to
complain. The mischief in the case of these as
in other cases might in great measure be soften'd
away by public or private plans of insurance,
throwing the loss from a smaller fund upon a
larger. Thus much I've it does appear to one the
Legislator might compass by very obvious means'
more
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