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But this Punishment is not any punishment
whatsoever: it is a Acertain Punishment:
either fixed, or at least circumscribed
within certain limits.
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Here then is one species of offence: that of
contributing to a Punishment on quantity
or quality not legal.
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And these ends are not to be [employed]
contributed to by any means: but only by a particular
course of means, which as being
the P, deemed the best upon the whole +the
Law has marked out for that purpose:
The powers given him are cut and fashioned
to that course.+ is the only one the Law has thought proper to allow of either a Nor to judge of what he is doing, they must with him: It is nothard:=it is something to follow
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But he may offend # also by mere non-feasance; he may offend by not taking upon him
to exercise powers which he is permitted to
exercise: in such case it appears, he is
not only permitted to exercise them, but enjoined.
He needed not perhapsto have exercised
them if he had not chosen: but he has
enjoyedto execute them: The Law depends
upon him to in these contrary causes which call for it
exercising them; if he had not
undertaken it,The Law would have committed them to some one else <add>(that) some one else would.:
but to trusting to him it has not: that some
one else therefore will act, for he cannot:
& he does not: but the exercise of these
powers was necessary to the accomplishing
of the end: if they are not exercised, the
end can'tquestionable reading not be accomplished: they are
not exercised: & so the end is not accomplished.
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But the accomplishment of that end, and the <unclear>instance
in question, was one of the means.deemed
necessary to keep a certain portion of unhappinessmischief
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from existinginvadingin the Society. There is therefore
a visible probability of a certain portion
of unhappinessmischief accruing to the Society;</unclear> which
probability perhaps is <boundconverted into act[uality]
And he is the means of hisdeleted text its' accruing: Others
end his situation seeing in his punishment
the consequence of their permitting of and
like manner to accrue, will therefore be
induced to take the proper measures to prevent thereof he omitted, its
accruing: He is therefore a fit object of
Punishment.
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misdemeanours of officers - magistrates |
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