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The Makers and Ministers Interpreters of the Law have holden that the
Wokman who without sufficient warning gievn lets fall a
stone which kills a Passenger in the way is guilty to be holden guilty either of
Manslaughter of his blood or Murder. It were well would they remember keep in mind
thiscase, and apply it to their own - The Law Final is
a perpetual Milstone hung over the heads of Men: and
no sufficient warning have yet been given methods have yet been taken to warn them
that they may escape it's fall - To point out the course
to be taken in order to giveit with the most advantage is
all that an obscure Individual can perform - To give
To follow that belongs it belongs to no other than the finger of Authority of Power.
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One should think it required not much Logic to prove, nor much thetoric to persuade Vrly Legislators write down Offences & Punishments upon paper
which they send in large quantities to lye up great Warehouses
every thing goes on as usual - they set down again and
write down Punishments heavier than at first before, disobedience
as before - They think imagine there is a certain Talismanic virtue in
Black Character marked upon a white ground which like
the Sympathetic powder of a once famous Knight, curing -
without any communication between the remedy and deseas'd
is a sovereign efficacy against those perrant humours which
they purpose to expell: They expect [that opposition]
should vanish as they write, they expect and are deceived.
PROMULGATION. Necessity of
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