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Certainty — Evidence a1
The state of this Law of Jurisprudence is such
— that the in and the Rules ending it this kind of Jurisprudence and practise according to those
rules are such, as not to be defended by any man one,
give him what axioms he will chuse for true,
unless you grant them to be also false. deny precisely the same thing in one form of words, which they maintain in another.
The There is every difference between a man's swearing to
erase his own guilt, & to reach the innocence of another save himself or another even the guilty from suffering, or even another forhim from punishment, and to bring it down upon another
who is innocent.
1 The first is a weakness, which under an ordinary degree of the temptation,
if not a majority, at least as large a portion of mankind
are not able to stand firm against but to the test would sink under it, would be to put the machine of Justice to a stop. & exclude all who if put to
4 The last is a villainy that will shocks even those who are familiar
to every other.
2 In The second case the temptation is as much less strong
& consequently the guilt of under it more great,
as it is worse to lose an fortune which one has of one's
own, than to not to have what is another's. That
The is a crime case which however pernicious & great necessary
as well as the others to be punished at what time is ever it can be detected
has that mixture in it of generosity to reveal disposition as shews argues
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