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29 Jany 1809 Peines10
Paley 21 — & thus the power of Pardon should be altogether abolished
But here again may be seen another gratuitous
supposition, which lest the confusion should not be yet
thick enough, is added to slipt in along with the rest. This is - that
be any of by every person by whom this system of dispensing
with the laws nine times out of ten is not approved
of - an opinion that can not but be entertained is - +
+Give the grounds for pardon in a Note.
that no such power as the power which he means
by the power of as no calls of it this severity meaning
doubtless the power of pardon should exist in any any where
hands.
To this proposition for my own part I should suppose this exception
would not be difficult to find: and one at least I
am sure of.
Unfortunately for myself at least the difference in opinion between
the reverend Doctor and myself is as in regard to this
point as well as so many others total and irremediable inexorable.
According to him every thing ought to be done He is for having every thing done without reasons; [+]
[+] for let him say what he will so long as I feel or fancy myself in possession of the sort of faculty called a reasoning faculty, I never can admitt under the character of a reason, a pretended reason for which he who calls on me to give admission to it in that character acknowledges himself unable to find words. According to him so far a part as conscious the difference between life and death, whatever is done is to be done by the Theory, may might to be within propriety be done without reasons (a) (a) present him the Note
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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