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Observations. Inferenda
Later themselves to some other business: this other business
must support them for three years. If it
support them for 3 years willit be worth their
while to relinquish it, and to take themselves again
to that from which they were turned out with
ignominy?
But Recognizance is a Compact: an instrument
by which the individual is indeed subjected to penalties indeed A good compact
but subjected by his own consent. What the penalties are
therefore is no matter; hardship in then
there can be none: since the submitting to them is
his own choice. Is it possible there can be any
men with whom this Logic can prevail? Yes there
are. For there is no absurdity that men have not been
prevailed in themselves
made to swallow where mixed up with the words
"consent" and "compact". Words which seem fated to
confusion into every dispute into which they are admitted.
To those who are not governed by sound it is must be That the tortures indeed can be brought in to measure than by Comfort
manifest that there is just as much of consent in the one
case as in the other. A set of regulations are prescribed;
consents to submit to certain punishments, if these
regulations are not observed by him - why? because
if he does not consent he cannot get his license: and
if he does not get a license, he will be punished if he
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