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entertain ing the interval between Death the fatal Stroke for the years of enjoyment: which he
loses by it as well as the misery he actually undergoes
which he is apt to consider as clear & gratuitous, the
portion pain which he according to the common course of nature
must have accompanied his dissolution, at what so
ever future period it should have happened, not being
as may be supposed under such circumstances attended to and taken into the
account — But this source of misery evidently does has plainly no
not exist existence in the case before us.
It is a pretty obvious objection, tho' one easily answer'd the answer seems equally so

It may here be objected, that by this analysis I
explain away all the mischief misery attending the Crime, of Murder in general
and consequently according to any principles as for all the guilt of it; for since
the misery of the immediate object of the Crime is there made
out to be nothing or next to nothing; the misery also
of those related the secondary objects to the primary object should therefore
be nothing inconsiderable as consisting in the mere prospect
of a misery which itself made is theirs out by this argument
to be inconsiderable.

But if the objection wants nothing of being is obvious, the answer is no less so. wants nothing of being satisfactory as are
The calm attention, the patient scrutiny, which can enable enable men to whom speculation is familiar to survey
an object abstracted from the surrounding ones that confound
the observation to shut out all false lights that by their
glare dazzle and distract the attention imagination is the lot
only of a few, and of those few only in the calm tranquil
shewing of the Closet. those who ate every time are
capable of such disquisitions, compared with the

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Identifier: | JB/096/220/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	220	Info in main headings field	homicide of infants
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31224
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