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14. C
Of Unlawful Reproach
33 What sort of imputation shall be most mischievous to an individual depends on high or low condition in life. difference is apt to be exaggerated. In making the comparison we
are apt to imagine what a man of high rank would suffer
from an imputation of a given kind and conveyed in a given
measure, and then imagine what a man of mean rank
would suffer from an imputation of the same kind and conveyed
in the same manner. But to make the comparison
fairly we ought to conceive what each would suffer
by that sort of imputation by which each would respectively
be most affected. 34 The more the education Sensibility and A Nobleman is most apt to be tender
of his honour, a soldier of his courage, a clergyman of
his piety and orthodoxy, a working mechanic of his skill
in his Art: a modest woman of her reputation in point of
chastity, a courtezan of her beauty.
Identifier: | JB/072/037/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72. |
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072 |
penal code |
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037 |
of offences against reputation in general / of unlawful reproach |
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002 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
f13 / f14 |
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23654 |
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