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<note>6<lb/><lb/>§ Non-seductive</note> | <note>6<lb/><lb/>§ Non-seductive</note> | ||
<add>proving</add> incorrigible to be neglected in taking account<lb/>of the <del>benefits</del> advantages and disadvantages to be<lb/>expected from the measure to the reception of which<lb/>such instruction is designed to smooth the way.<lb/><p>But <del>there are cases in</del> governments go further<lb/>Rewards are <sic>offer'd</sic> not only for <del>inf</del> giving information<lb/>against the <add>your</add> accomplice, but for apprehending<lb/>him, for dragging him to justice with your<lb/>own hand. This variation however makes little<lb/>difference: the argument which the question turns<lb/>upon are the same.<lb/></p>The strongest case of all is where the<lb/>government sets a price upon the head of the delinquent: <note>Pretender.</note> offering a reward to any one who without<lb/>waiting for the <add>intermediate</add> decision of a court of Justice<lb/>will take the punishment of him upon his own<lb/>hands. This is the case put by M. Beccaria:<lb/><del>and which has drawn from him the objections <add>and</add><lb/>which I have been endeavouring to solve. This<lb/>practise in this case may perhaps <add>Perhaps</add> to other objections<lb/>the practise may <add>in this case</add> be exposed; but on the score <add>from the objection</add> of<lb/>criminality I see not why the preceeding observations<lb/>may not vindicate it <add>in this case</add> as well as in those which<lb/></del><note><gap/> | <add>proving</add> incorrigible to be neglected in taking account<lb/>of the <del>benefits</del> advantages and disadvantages to be<lb/>expected from the measure to the reception of which<lb/>such instruction is designed to smooth the way.<lb/><p>But <del>there are cases in</del> governments go further<lb/>Rewards are <sic>offer'd</sic> not only for <del>inf</del> giving information<lb/>against the <add>your</add> accomplice, but for apprehending<lb/>him, for dragging him to justice with your<lb/>own hand. This variation however makes little<lb/>difference: the argument which the question turns<lb/>upon are the same.<lb/></p>The strongest case of all is where the<lb/>government sets a price upon the head of the delinquent: <note>Pretender.</note> offering a reward to any one who without<lb/>waiting for the <add>intermediate</add> decision of a court of Justice<lb/>will take the punishment of him upon his own<lb/>hands. This is the case put by M. Beccaria:<lb/><del>and which has drawn from him the objections <add>and</add><lb/>which I have been endeavouring to solve. This<lb/>practise in this case may perhaps <add>Perhaps</add> to other objections<lb/>the practise may <add>in this case</add> be exposed; but on the score <add>from the objection</add> of<lb/>criminality I see not why the preceeding observations<lb/>may not vindicate it <add>in this case</add> as well as in those which<lb/></del><note><gap/>have<lb/><pb/> | ||
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§ Non-seductive
proving incorrigible to be neglected in taking account
of the benefits advantages and disadvantages to be
expected from the measure to the reception of which
such instruction is designed to smooth the way.
But there are cases in governments go further
Rewards are offer'd not only for inf giving information
against the your accomplice, but for apprehending
him, for dragging him to justice with your
own hand. This variation however makes little
difference: the argument which the question turns
upon are the same.
The strongest case of all is where the
government sets a price upon the head of the delinquent: Pretender. offering a reward to any one who without
waiting for the intermediate decision of a court of Justice
will take the punishment of him upon his own
hands. This is the case put by M. Beccaria:
and which has drawn from him the objections and
which I have been endeavouring to solve. This
practise in this case may perhaps Perhaps to other objections
the practise may in this case be exposed; but on the score from the objection of
criminality I see not why the preceeding observations
may not vindicate it in this case as well as in those which
<note>have
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