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<p>of things is no other than the present,<lb/>
with only this difference viz That the laws<lb/>
as enacted by the legislature would in<lb/>
the State supposed instead of being dispensed<lb/>
with or disobeyed in nine instances<lb/>
out of ten be obeyed and executed in<lb/>
every instance.</p>


<p>To me I must confess in the part <add><!-- in pencil -->point</add> of<lb/>
the public compassion there can be no<lb/>
great danger nor any great hope of any<lb/>
such want of endurance. Capital punishments<lb/>
denounced in such abundance<lb/>
is, in this behalf, the State of things, the<lb/>
people at large including the very few<lb/>
who ever care or think about the matter<lb/>
were born under and are used to.<lb/>
With them, as with the Reverend Doctor,<lb/>
bating the blast of some momentary and<lb/>
casual interest passion or caprice, practice<lb/>
is the only proper or intelligible standard<lb/>
of right and wrong. With them as with<lb/>
him and Blackstone so long as every<lb/>
thing is as it is wont to be every thing<lb/>
is as it should be. In their eyes <add>as</add></p>




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of things is no other than the present,
with only this difference viz That the laws
as enacted by the legislature would in
the State supposed instead of being dispensed
with or disobeyed in nine instances
out of ten be obeyed and executed in
every instance.

To me I must confess in the part point of
the public compassion there can be no
great danger nor any great hope of any
such want of endurance. Capital punishments
denounced in such abundance
is, in this behalf, the State of things, the
people at large including the very few
who ever care or think about the matter
were born under and are used to.
With them, as with the Reverend Doctor,
bating the blast of some momentary and
casual interest passion or caprice, practice
is the only proper or intelligible standard
of right and wrong. With them as with
him and Blackstone so long as every
thing is as it is wont to be every thing
is as it should be. In their eyes as



Identifier: | JB/107/289/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

107

Main Headings

law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)

Folio number

289

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1821

Notes public

ID Number

35280

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