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<p>But it will be said, by <add>how</add> what means can you satisfy yourself that<lb/>a man is <del>not</del> a dishonest man from these <gap/> — how can<lb/>you satisfy yourself, that what he has said is absolutely<lb/>false, when nothing is absolutely asserted? I answer easily — as easily<lb/>in many cases, as when it is. | <p>But it will be said, by <add>how</add> what means can you satisfy yourself that<lb/>a man is <del>not</del> a dishonest man from these <gap/> — how can<lb/>you satisfy yourself, that what he has said is absolutely<lb/>false, when nothing is absolutely asserted? I answer easily — as easily<lb/>in many cases, as when it is. | ||
We must consider, that in Perjury, the guilt <add><gap/></add> of the accused, is<lb/>always but a matter of inference, never of intuition: of<lb/> inference, concerning what <gap/> to have passed in his<lb/>mind at two periods [at least] the time <add>to</add> <del>of</del> which the<lb/>Deposition speaks, — the time at which it is made.<lb/> And of this <del>we judge</del> <add>he to whom it belongs, judges</add> from the situation of | |||
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Click Here To Edit Perjury Intensity of averment.
not in all, be allowed to for much, as every
one must be sensible, is in very many cases, all that an
honest man can say: when the act or situation to be described
was sudden & transitory, when it happened
when it happen'd long ago, when it was such, as
behaved not much to engage his attention: in , in a
variety of other , which every man's imagination will
suggest.
But it will be said, by how what means can you satisfy yourself that
a man is not a dishonest man from these — how can
you satisfy yourself, that what he has said is absolutely
false, when nothing is absolutely asserted? I answer easily — as easily
in many cases, as when it is.
We must consider, that in Perjury, the guilt of the accused, is
always but a matter of inference, never of intuition: of
inference, concerning what to have passed in his
mind at two periods [at least] the time to of which the
Deposition speaks, — the time at which it is made.
And of this we judge he to whom it belongs, judges from the situation of
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