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29 Jany 18089. Peines 16

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Paley Offenders swept into
by numerous Statutes
ThNumber of Statutes
creating capital offences
punishment no proof
of compleatness, since
however numerous By the number — by the mere number it is, nor without notice
taken of extent, that is here said to do what it is here
said to accomplish

Another error - and that too a vulgar one: and
not the less so for being a parliamentary one. By the
Reverend Doctor at least a professed teacher of logic -
had his hope been of a complexion fit for use this error at least
might would have been avoided. And needs needed be there to be
told that the number of statutes creating capital offences
might have been any number of thousands of times greater
than it is, without being half so sanguinary as it is or
filling half so full as it has done the delectable delightful <add>convenient</add> net
he speaks of? Needed he to be told that metal after metal
and plant after plant have to this purpose
by successive statutes been taken for the subject of legislation?
and that [+] [+] under the existing
"policy of chance
by which about with the exc is the policy really
pursued, with the exception
of the policy of particular
interest is the
only policy really
pursued, on the ground under the of penal law as on
so many other parts of the field, the scantiness of the provision
made is no less flagrant than the exuberance?

Every crime? by mere number and without regard to extent,
is there supposed design fulfilled then, fulfilled at all times fulfilled upon every
crime which was within the grasp of it? At the time in question Every crime of
the description in question being thus provided for at the time
in question — whatever that time was — viz the time at which this
was working — how what would there have been left for the
wisdom and vigilance of succeeding legislators? and yet the
same work has been going on ever since, ever still
scanty as well as over still exuberant.

Identifier: | JB/107/217/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1	1809-01-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	217	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	35208
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