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<head>Offences against the Coin</head> | <head>Offences against the Coin</head> | ||
The reasons that have been given more particularly so<lb/>with this; insomuch that it might be worthwhile to<lb/>incur some hazard in<add>the</add><del>their</del>experiment for the sake of<lb/>trying the efficiency of such milder remedies: I mean that<lb/> hazard, whatever it might be, which might be incured<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. Now though nothing<lb/>is | The reasons that have been given more particularly so<lb/>with this; insomuch that it might be worthwhile to<lb/>incur some hazard in<add>the</add><del>their</del>experiment for the sake of<lb/>trying the efficiency of such milder remedies: I mean that<lb/> hazard, whatever it might be, which might be incured<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<gap/>than that any robber will do for a coiner, yet<lb/> almost any coiner will do for a robber.<p>(one thing iis is true is to be considered) on the other<lb/> side that in general a theif 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 is </p> | ||
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Offences against the Coin
The reasons that have been given more particularly so
with this; insomuch that it might be worthwhile to
incur some hazard inthetheirexperiment for the sake of
trying the efficiency of such milder remedies: I mean that
hazard, whatever it might be, which might be incuredforby
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 fromrisingbeing corruptedinto robbers. Now though nothing
isthan that any robber will do for a coiner, yet
almost any coiner will do for a robber.
(one thing iis is true is to be considered) on the other
side that in general a theif 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 inthetrack he is in till he is
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offences against the coin |
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