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<p>8</p> | |||
<p><head>Capital Punishment examined.</head></p> | |||
<p>once taken, to rest satisfied without carrying it immediately<lb/> into effect: for there is not a more universal<lb/> | |||
principle of human conduct than that<lb/> | |||
which leads <add><del>a man</del></add> a man to satisfy himself for <add>a while</add> with the<lb/> | |||
power without proceeding immediately, perhaps without<lb/> | |||
proceeding ever, to the act. It is <del>that</del> | |||
<add>the same feeling</add> which<lb/> | |||
<add>so often</add> turns the | |||
voluptuous man to a miser.</p> | |||
<p>Now this is likely enough to be the condition of<lb/> | |||
those instead of death <del>are</del> <add>may have been</add> sentenced to another<lb/> | |||
punishment<hi rend="superscript"><del>⊞</del></hi> <note><del>⊞ Suffer rather than "die" is their motto.</del></note> They defer the execution of their design<lb/> | |||
from hour to hour: sometimes for want of <lb/> | |||
means, sometimes for want of inclination, till at<lb/> | |||
last some incident happens that <del>which <add>to put</add></del> puts in their heads<lb/> | |||
<del>heads</del> a train of thought which in the end diverts<lb/> | |||
them from their resolution. In the mental as well<lb/> | |||
as in the material part of the human frame<lb/> | |||
there is happily a strong disposition to accommodate<lb/> | |||
itself by degrees to the pressure of <del>a f</del> forced and<lb/> | |||
calamitous situations. When a great artery is<lb/> | |||
cut or otherwise disabled, the circumjacent <add>smaller</add> | |||
ones<lb/> | |||
will stretch and take upon themselves the whole duty of<lb/> | |||
<del>applying</del> conveying to the part affected the necessary<lb/> | |||
supplies. Loss of sight improves the faculty of feeling.<lb/> | |||
A left hand learns to perform the offices of the right<lb/> | |||
or even the feet of both. An inferior part of the<lb/> | |||
<add>alimentary</add></p> | |||
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8
Capital Punishment examined.
once taken, to rest satisfied without carrying it immediately
into effect: for there is not a more universal
principle of human conduct than that
which leads a man a man to satisfy himself for a while with the
power without proceeding immediately, perhaps without
proceeding ever, to the act. It is that
the same feeling which
so often turns the
voluptuous man to a miser.
Now this is likely enough to be the condition of
those instead of death are may have been sentenced to another
punishment⊞ ⊞ Suffer rather than "die" is their motto. They defer the execution of their design
from hour to hour: sometimes for want of
means, sometimes for want of inclination, till at
last some incident happens that which to put puts in their heads
heads a train of thought which in the end diverts
them from their resolution. In the mental as well
as in the material part of the human frame
there is happily a strong disposition to accommodate
itself by degrees to the pressure of a f forced and
calamitous situations. When a great artery is
cut or otherwise disabled, the circumjacent smaller
ones
will stretch and take upon themselves the whole duty of
applying conveying to the part affected the necessary
supplies. Loss of sight improves the faculty of feeling.
A left hand learns to perform the offices of the right
or even the feet of both. An inferior part of the
alimentary
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