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<head>Offences against the Coin</head> | <head>Offences against the Coin</head> | ||
<!-- page cancelled with vertical lines --><p><note><del>Danger of punishing coiners more than Robbers</del></note> the reasons that have been given more particularly so <lb/> | |||
with this; insomuch that it might be worth while to<lb/> | |||
incur some hazard in <add>the</add><del>this</del> experiment for the sake of<lb/> | |||
trying the efficacy of such milder remedies: I mean that<lb/> | |||
hazard, whatever it might be, which might be incurred <del>for</del> <add>by</add><lb/> | |||
reducing, for a time at least, the punishment of coining<lb/> | |||
to a level with that of theft. I do not say that any<lb/> | |||
difference in point of punishment will bring back robbers<lb/> | |||
and convert them into coiners; but it may prevent<lb/> | |||
coiners from <del>rising</del> <add>being corrupted</add> into robbers. Now though nothing<lb/> | |||
is less true than that any robber will do for a coiner, yet<lb/> | |||
almost any Coiner will do for a robber.</p> | |||
<p>(one thing it is true is to be considered) on the other<lb/> | |||
side that in general a thief or sharper or a robber who has<lb/> | |||
followed any of these occupations for a length of time<lb/> | |||
cannot of himself turn to anything else: so that he has<lb/> | |||
nothing left for it but to go on in <add>the</add> track he is in till he <add>is</add></p> | |||
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Offences against the Coin
Danger of punishing coiners more than Robbers the reasons that have been given more particularly so
with this; insomuch that it might be worth while to
incur some hazard in thethis experiment for the sake of
trying the efficacy of such milder remedies: I mean that
hazard, whatever it might be, which might be incurred for by
reducing, for a time at least, the punishment of coining
to a level with that of theft. I do not say that any
difference in point of punishment will bring back robbers
and convert them into coiners; but it may prevent
coiners from rising being corrupted into robbers. Now though nothing
is less true than that any robber will do for a coiner, yet
almost any Coiner will do for a robber.
(one thing it is true is to be considered) on the other
side that in general a thief or sharper or a robber who has
followed any of these occupations for a length of time
cannot of himself turn to anything else: so that he has
nothing left for it but to go on in the track he is in till he is
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law in general |
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offences against the coin |
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