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The Subjects of Theft, Malicious mischief loss or casting away must be comprized under mischief - as under the instance of Letters & their aggravations
are either valuable or invaluable: The former
description comprehends almost any thing which
one should first think of naming: The latter denotes
a few things which being but as it were exceptions -
out of the other and must be specified: but are all included
comprehensible under the general term of writings. Not that all
writings are hereby meant: for of these many are susceptible
of a certain value in virtue of their relation
to that which has one.
Writings not susceptible of valuation, may be distinguished
into: 1st Records, 2d Birth & Marriage
Registers- 3d Letters, 4thly Other Writings in general
of these the two first may without hesitation or difficulty
be put on a level with the hightest value - the 2d
including every thing that a person is worth in point
of property, together with his Fame & condition of
LIfe besides; the other, matters of yet higher consideration
than all that has been mentioned put together.
The other two require more consideration: being susceptible
of a variety of value from almost nothing up to an
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indiscrete sum. The 3d from a letter of compliment up
to a summons to receive the last words of a dying consort
the 4th from a School boy's waist book to a Work like
those of Locke & Newton capable of making a Revolution
in the state of human Nature.
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The last in particular, is apt but too often to become the subject of a Theft which is not the less distressing
to the party wronged because the injurer is most commonly
a person above the temptation to any other: and since
he is not above the temptation to this, there is the same
reason for terrifying him from his prey by a suitable
punishment, as the poverty stricken malefactor from his—
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theft invaluables sive un-negociables |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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