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man who has
notes at his com
nd is obliged to
reason on his
I don't mean
has much
powers:
hance it
ubating
rather
can be
may one tough
which may
mpetition
ching
can
justify
thus:
have any
thing so
much as
taken an
apology
but by
a quibble.
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certain governments be allready to
which punishes which by punishing
malefactors to whom by super conducts
printed to them it has insured in punity
The same abbrated
advocate jurist of humanity
enveighs with
less exceptionable
severity against
that Government which
by its own act
promises itself has
—
made.
a precarious support
but after all still
the best which such
a situation can
afford.
—
InBy the Penit.
Act Systemdiscipline the
Prisons would
have been rendered
so lazy
—
Equity itself it has
been and ought
not to interfere
to the prejudice
of the defendant
in a matter of
penal law - What
shall we say
when punishment
is the rigour oof
penal laws is
renewed up to
the highest pitch
not by equity
but iniquity
iniquity of the
the most indiable
& and nature.
—
distinction is made
with as much care
By the former distractions
a of justice
or mocked: this as a : by
of his the money
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What shall we
say of a government
which in
itselfits own person is
guilty of that very
violation itself
violates its own
engagements - to
declare say, this
and that & man
reasonable Gentleman
& noble Lord man in his infirmity
of legislation , we
declare that he
who does so & so
shall suffer banishment
for life:
But he who does
so & so for 14
years & no more
he who does so &
so, for only 7
years. 685
persons become
guilty of transportable
offences
Twenty are sentenced
to suffer for life.
39 others for 14
years. 628 for
7 years 2 for
5 years - To the
carefully minated is this sentence executed
how. - All
to whateffect execution
is given? Exactly
one and the same
Who are the two
whose punishment
is thus aably
& carefully confined
to 5 years
Two women
is out of tenderness
doubtless out of
tenderness to the
softer and weaker
sex that the distinction
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Bucaria enoughs
with what justice
I we and not here inquire
against them
who governments by rewards
for the discovery of
accomplices waste & suborn
men to acts of treachery
& isolation of good faith
—
What shall we say
when a punishment
beyond comparison
more severe
is of produced by
an operation beyond
an act of power comparison more irresistable.
If the legal prohibition
and that
alone had been pronounced
the sentence
would without difficulty beyond all
doubt have
been illegal.
What is the obstacle down under the Colonization
plane instead to
a legal prohibition
a physical impossibility
Changing his name
after years had
made a certain
of change in his person
He might have
in a practical point of England almost without
danger.
He might have at
Calais Dunkirk or
Bologne: live with
Englishmen, have in sight of England) and be
at hand to sollicit a
mitigation of his
sentence.
If he chose to run
the risk he might
at any time find
himself in England in
the compass of a few
hours
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