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paraphrase substituting to an indeterminate<lb/> and unintelligible clause that which<lb/> presents itself as the nearest intelligible<lb/>one. On the part of any one, who has in<lb/> contemplation the commission of any<lb/>enormous crime, there exists not (let us<lb/> say any such knowledge of the absence<lb/> of all provision made for its punishment,<lb/> as will cause him to adventure<lb/> upon the commission of it. In this<lb/> sense insipid and trifling as the proposition<lb/> is it cannot be charged <lb/> with being untrue; but in the character<lb/> of an argument in favour of the system of <lb/> punishment of the excellency of which it<lb/>is employed to half persuade so what <lb/>does it amount to? Exactly as it would <lb/>apply and with the same force in justification<lb/> of any other system of punishment<lb/> which happened to stand annexed to<lb/> the offences here in question -any punishment,<lb/> - no matter what - so it were<lb/> <add>but</add></p> | paraphrase substituting to an indeterminate<lb/> and unintelligible clause that which<lb/> presents itself as the nearest intelligible<lb/>one. On the part of any one, who has in<lb/> contemplation the commission of any<lb/>enormous crime, there exists not (let us<lb/> say any such knowledge of the absence<lb/> of all provision made for its punishment,<lb/> as will cause him to adventure<lb/> upon the commission of it. In this<lb/> sense insipid and trifling as the proposition<lb/> is it cannot be charged <lb/> with being untrue; but in the character<lb/> of an argument in favour of the system of <lb/> punishment of the excellency of which it<lb/>is employed to half persuade so what <lb/>does it amount to? Exactly as it would <lb/>apply and with the same force in justification<lb/> of any other system of punishment<lb/> which happened to stand annexed to<lb/> the offences here in question -any punishment,<lb/> - no matter what - so it were<lb/> <add>but</add></p> | ||
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and no other can be expressed but by a
paraphrase substituting to an indeterminate
and unintelligible clause that which
presents itself as the nearest intelligible
one. On the part of any one, who has in
contemplation the commission of any
enormous crime, there exists not (let us
say any such knowledge of the absence
of all provision made for its punishment,
as will cause him to adventure
upon the commission of it. In this
sense insipid and trifling as the proposition
is it cannot be charged
with being untrue; but in the character
of an argument in favour of the system of
punishment of the excellency of which it
is employed to half persuade so what
does it amount to? Exactly as it would
apply and with the same force in justification
of any other system of punishment
which happened to stand annexed to
the offences here in question -any punishment,
- no matter what - so it were
but
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]] |
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