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Simple afflictive Punishments
Sources of distinction three: the part, the instrument, and the manner.
We begin with simple afflictive punishments. Punishments of this denomination [These] may be distinguished from one another by three principal circumstances. 1st from the part affected: 2. from the nature of the instrument: 3. from the manner in which the instrument is applied.
To enumerate all the varieties that might by possibility be produced by the combination of as many different circumstances as would come under the above general heads, would be an useless as well as manifestly an endless task. To enumerate the several parts of a man's body in which he is liable to be made to suffer, would be to give a complete body of anatomy. To enumerate the several instruments by the application of which he might be made to suffer would be to give a complete body of natural history. To attempt to enumerate the different manners in which those instruments may be [are capable of being} applied to such a purpose, would be to attempt to exhaust the inexhaustible variety of motions and situations. Among the indefinite multitude of punishments of this kind that might be imagined and described, it will answer every purpose if we mention such of them as have names. Their having names is a proof that they are in use: at least that they are known. A catalogue, though it were not altogether
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punishment |
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143 |
simple afflictive punishments |
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mechanical / chymical / note |
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f1 / f2 / f3 / f4 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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caroline vernon |
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53966 |
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