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29 Jany 18089. Peines 16
Paley number 7 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, as 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 [+]
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