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Simple afflictive Punishments.
Sources of distinction three: the part, the instrument, and the manner.
We begin with simple afflictive Punishments.
[These] Punishments of this denomination may be distinguished from one another by
three principal circumstances. 1st. from the part
affected: 2. from the manner in wh 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
compleat body of anatomy. To enumerate the several
instruments by the application of which he
might be made to suffer would be to give a compleat
body of Natural History. To attempt to
enumerate the different manners in which those
instruments [are may be 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 the
are known. A catalogue, though it were not altogether
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Identifier: | JB/159/143/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159. |
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not numbered |
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159 |
punishment |
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143 |
simple afflictive punishments |
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001 |
mechanical / chymical / note |
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text sheet |
4 |
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recto |
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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