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To have followed the dictates of simple understanding common sense and ordinary in the description of it
would have been at least highly dangerous if not fatal to the meaning efficacy
To "suffer death by hanging" would indeed to men of ordinary intellects seem to impart that . man was to be
to lose his life & lose it in this way hanged and to lose his life by it: but lawyers know that it means its' meaning is very different - too different & too complex, to
be delineated in under less than many orations
Such proposals indeed were it to be as , , would probably bring the put the profession into no small embarassment:if indeed
it would be more certain, that that would not be his fate, that what it would.
Such of my readers who have been at the pains of it, who are familiarized with this rubbishdoctrine<add>, knew well enough that this is the case.: & it
would take up so much time <add>in this place to make it outto explain it to those who have are not. All I can do for them at present is to
refer them to the books mentioned in the margin
I must hasten from a topic subject pregnant with accordance of expense few expectationsof object of dispute
as if I answered reason
which if I were one to take I should never see know when to quit: & which had much better be prefered over
than not treated with that copiousness & precision which the importance of it deserves.
Suffering death on legal means no such thing as losing life: then go case to bargain their own body
& aware: of how little one should
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This is one of those subjects on which it is better to say nothing than to say too little:
at on some future time occasion, it may be my fate to say what many will think too much
I cannot however avoid suggesting the question, it as an whether there be any reason to think that
be awful to shout
to which</add> which was in —not repeated, was by design.
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