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C Instructions to the legislator

&c Law Law Suggestions to the Legislator In aid of such provisions the punishments levelled directly as it may be pro
against the

What The circumstances
1 How far a written is more dangerous than an oral discourse Defamation when committed to
print is commonly looked upon with more anxiety
than when it is confined conveyed only from
mouth to mouth or confined to writing is
commonly looked upon with much more anxiety,
than when it is convey'd only from mouth to
mouth. In the nomenclature of most laws
it constitutes a separate distinct offence: If and
however is commonly treated with more severity
If however this The circumstance of being committed conveyd
by writing rather than in a less permanent form
is however in fact but an external extrinsic adventitious
circumstance: and if it enhances the mischief
on some accounts it diminishes it,as we
have seen, in others.

2 - a printed than a written one. The circumstance of it's being in print is another circumstance which seems
commonly to be looked upon as making a very
material alteration in the nature of the offence.
A considerable alteration no doubt it makes
in general: but not necessarily. Sometimes a paper

Identifier: | JB/072/043/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	043	Info in main headings field	press
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / f1 / d2 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	myears
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23660
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