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Analogy.
arbitrary in their eyes. In a word, the var less in danger
will it app be of disgust giving them disgust: the more greater chance will
it [even] have of even affording them a kind of satisfaction article of merit then. This comes to neither more nor less than
the quality of Popularity which [a mode of Punishment
conspicuous for its concerned on the score of analogy is particularly apt
on account of this very latter Property to possess.] is particularly
apt to arise out of the other. The people in comparing
the offence with the punishment discover what they call
a reason for the latter: which [reason] is no more than a
circumstance that tends [but upon principles they do not examine
into] to dispose them to relish such a punishment
when they see it annexed to such a crime.
The identify of a any circumstance in the offence and punishment
constitutes what may be called a real or genuine or legitimate
analogy. A case of spurious verbal kind of analogy may be
held up exhibited whenever occasion can be taken to one use a
word on the description of the one which can be
applied to the description of the other: and this although
it be employ'd in different senses or the two
occasions cases: literally is the one and metaphorically one
the other.[a] D
NOTE
[a] Lord Coke speaking of the punishment for High Treason
that his body claims that it is proper the "body, lands, goods, posterity
"&c..." of a Traytor..." should be torn, pulled asunder and
destroyed as because "he intended to tear and destroy the Majesty
Identifier: | JB/159/129/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
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punishment |
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analogy |
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analogy subservient to reformation / analogy real & verbal |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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caroline vernon |
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