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<p><head>Of Simple <sic>Falshood</sic></head> | |||
<sic>-terial</sic>)not to apply the former contrivance to this<lb/> | |||
case. His design is here to make you <del>think</del> <add>believe</add><lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> not respecting the contents of this closet, not that<lb/> | |||
they were <del><gap/></del> <add>taken</add> by other persons, but that they<lb/> | |||
have not been taken at all. Accordingly <add>not having the key</add> he breaks<lb/> | |||
open the door <del><gap/></del> as carefully and with as little<lb/> | |||
violence as he can. Thus far there is neither <sic>falshood</sic><lb/> | |||
nor fucation in the case. But in spite<lb/> | |||
of all his caution, a splinter from the door flies<lb/> | |||
off in the operation. This <del>he carefully picks up,</del> <add>if <sic>suffer'd</sic> to remain on</add><lb/> | |||
the floor where it falls, would naturally operate<lb/> | |||
as an evidence and that a pretty conclusive one<lb/> | |||
of the fact which really did happen, the fact of the<lb/> | |||
door's being broke open. To prevent this conclusion<lb/> | |||
from being drawn, he carefully picks up the splinter<lb/> | |||
<del>from</del> and by the help of a little glue, fastens it<lb/> | |||
on as neatly as he can to the place from which<lb/> | |||
it was broke off. This again is <hi rend='underline'>fucation</hi>: but it<lb/> | |||
is in this instance rather of the obliterative kind:<lb/> | |||
for the design of it is to obliterate those traces of his<lb/> | |||
crime which had been left in the perpetration and to<lb/> | |||
make you believe that a certain fact <add>which in truth has <sic>happen'd</sic></add> (to wit the<lb/> | |||
breaking <add>open</add> of the door / <del>which</del> has not <sic>happen'd</sic>: and <add>in</add></p> | |||
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20
Of Simple Falshood
-terial)not to apply the former contrivance to this
case. His design is here to make you think believe
not respecting the contents of this closet, not that
they were taken by other persons, but that they
have not been taken at all. Accordingly not having the key he breaks
open the door as carefully and with as little
violence as he can. Thus far there is neither falshood
nor fucation in the case. But in spite
of all his caution, a splinter from the door flies
off in the operation. This he carefully picks up, if suffer'd to remain on
the floor where it falls, would naturally operate
as an evidence and that a pretty conclusive one
of the fact which really did happen, the fact of the
door's being broke open. To prevent this conclusion
from being drawn, he carefully picks up the splinter
from and by the help of a little glue, fastens it
on as neatly as he can to the place from which
it was broke off. This again is fucation: but it
is in this instance rather of the obliterative kind:
for the design of it is to obliterate those traces of his
crime which had been left in the perpetration and to
make you believe that a certain fact which in truth has happen'd (to wit the
breaking open of the door / which has not happen'd: and in
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Identifier: | JB/071/081/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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penal code |
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081 |
of simple falshoods |
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jeremy bentham |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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