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1826. May 17.<lb/>2<head>Penal Code</head><lb/><note>Ch. VI. Offences affect<add>g</add> use of prop.<lb/>§. 10. Stealing</note><p>other</p><p>But even if the propriety of this principle were<lb/>admitted, <del>it would not warrant</del> upon examination, it<lb/>would not be found to be susceptible of application<lb/>in this case. In this same practice very few<lb/>are the gradations of punishment admitted between<lb/>absolute impunity and death. On the other hand,<lb/>prodigiously numerous are the cases in which<lb/>this supposed faculty of <gap/> has been<lb/>supposed to be observed and cases accordingly<lb/>grounded on them. The consequence has been &<lb/>would continue to be, a sort of auction on the part<lb/>of the proposers, of the correspondent extraordinary degree<lb/>of protection, for their respectively favourite and favoured<lb/>articles. And so large are the sums respectively<lb/>required to be added in order to constitute a bidding,<lb/>that before the hammer can <add>fall</add> be knocked <add>struck?</add> down, the<lb/>bidding is presently up to the mark of death.<lb/>The man of whom legislatures are composed have neither<lb/>appropriate knowledge, sound judgment, nor social<lb/>feeling. The men of whom juries are composed being<lb/>taken from the mass of the subject many have neither<lb/>adequate appropriate knowledge, or sound judgment,<lb/>but they have social feeling. By this same feeling<lb/>they are <add>very</add> generally disposed to <gap/> in the character </p> | |||
1826. May 17.
2Penal Code
Ch. VI. Offences affectg use of prop.
§. 10. Stealing
other
But even if the propriety of this principle were
admitted, it would not warrant upon examination, it
would not be found to be susceptible of application
in this case. In this same practice very few
are the gradations of punishment admitted between
absolute impunity and death. On the other hand,
prodigiously numerous are the cases in which
this supposed faculty of has been
supposed to be observed and cases accordingly
grounded on them. The consequence has been &
would continue to be, a sort of auction on the part
of the proposers, of the correspondent extraordinary degree
of protection, for their respectively favourite and favoured
articles. And so large are the sums respectively
required to be added in order to constitute a bidding,
that before the hammer can fall be knocked struck? down, the
bidding is presently up to the mark of death.
The man of whom legislatures are composed have neither
appropriate knowledge, sound judgment, nor social
feeling. The men of whom juries are composed being
taken from the mass of the subject many have neither
adequate appropriate knowledge, or sound judgment,
but they have social feeling. By this same feeling
they are very generally disposed to in the character
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