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<add>-our</add> but might be certain of obtaining adequate<lb/>redress.<lb/><p>In the work above referred to, care is accordingly<lb/><lb/>taken <add>on the one hand not to <sic>omitt</sic></add> to bring to account all injuries<lb/>by which according to the <del>european</del> <add>the present prevailing</add> modes of thinking<lb/>[in Europe,] a man's honour is affected: on the<lb/>othr hand to <del>provide</del> <add>administer to</add> them <del>with</del> that sort of<lb/>satisfaction which alone they can receive. <add>can effect a cure;</add><lb/></p><p>In this point too, the French law, even<lb/>more stands distinguished above every other I<lb/>described, presence — banishment that <add>most</add> beautiful <add>of</add> punishment, [if such a subject can <sic>admitt</sic> of such<lb/>an epithet] seems hitherto peculiar to that law.<lb/></p>The English law is here again eminently<lb/>defective. <del>The</del> It knows not of any such thing as<lb/>honour. It has no notion of estimating a corporal<lb/>insult but by the severity of the <del>wound</del> <add>bruise</add> or the dimensions<lb/>of the wound: it has no idea of any other<lb/>harm there can be in loss of reputation but loss <lb/>of money or what may be had <add>is to be had</add> for money. Money<lb/>too it looks upon as a salve for every sore. <note>It has nothing to give him<lb/>but money which he scorns<lb/></note> It has<lb/>no idea of any other reparation than what consists<lb/>in money: it has no idea that a man who<lb/>has not had money given him, has any thing: or<lb/> that a <add>an injured</add> man who has had money given him<lb/><note>can</note><pb/><pb/> | |||
14
Indirect Legislation
Satisfying
-our but might be certain of obtaining adequate
redress.
In the work above referred to, care is accordingly
taken on the one hand not to omitt to bring to account all injuries
by which according to the european the present prevailing modes of thinking
[in Europe,] a man's honour is affected: on the
othr hand to provide administer to them with that sort of
satisfaction which alone they can receive. can effect a cure;
In this point too, the French law, even
more stands distinguished above every other I
described, presence — banishment that most beautiful of punishment, [if such a subject can admitt of such
an epithet] seems hitherto peculiar to that law.
The English law is here again eminently
defective. The It knows not of any such thing as
honour. It has no notion of estimating a corporal
insult but by the severity of the wound bruise or the dimensions
of the wound: it has no idea of any other
harm there can be in loss of reputation but loss
of money or what may be had is to be had for money. Money
too it looks upon as a salve for every sore. It has nothing to give him
but money which he scorns
It has
no idea of any other reparation than what consists
in money: it has no idea that a man who
has not had money given him, has any thing: or
that a an injured man who has had money given him
can
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