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from blind reverence, from habit, from
inattention from timidity

Those gross obscene & jarring principles which hitherto
have been in possession of governing
the decisions on this head.

That men may understand,
that tho' they
do not actually propose
to themselves the
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event, they are to take
care not to use such
instruments from which the
such an event is any
ways likely to — but
who shall mark out by
penal the degrees
of probability? The Judges have been led to attempt it — but with such
miserable success as points not in a striking arrow
the impossibility of the attempt.

As we observed under the title of accident that the gradations and
the obviousness of connection between the energy & the calamitous
accident were too impossible to be masked out by general & permanent
rules so we may here observe that the modifications of countenance
from the combination of which 3 classes the
intention is to be collected, as in a manner infinite it appears
at first sight & I believe the most
studious examination will confirm that the
appearance) impossible to comprize them
within any general Rules — In no two
cases will the combination be perfectly

When as I have the gradations of
guilt are so equivocal
& insensible, such ghastly
precipices in the Scale
of punishment,
from impunity
mounting up to is contiguous to it may
ruin, betray evidently
the hasty workmanship
of a rude age: & call
for the hand of a better
to smooth them down. lay them smooth

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	063	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	137	Info in main headings field	exemptions accident
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c11* /
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[partial motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	20326
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