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DISSENTERS. Penal Laws.
They are in a great error, who seeing the words twenty
Pound & £100 & so many months imprisonment,
think that look upon the punishment for dissenting as just
so much as being just & no more — It is this gracious alternative,
beggary or perpetual imprisonment. It
is absolute proscription: as much so as any thing
can be, where torture is not used inflicted nor life
destroy'd. x p.4
[He who has travelled with too many horses one day may travel with fewer.] He who has made his cloth wrong one time, may make it right another
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Was there any one whoIn all other offences, when the fine is once paid, wch
the Law expresses, all is over at an end. — The numbers on
the paper are the measure of the offenders' suffering,
& it is his own folly if it be ever more. — Him He who had
smuggled once & has smarted for it, [may make ].
as one forces him to smuggle again.
2 The same which placed him in that late dangerous
cours station compells him to persevere. 1 Let his punishment
have been multiplied ever so often, he has it
still to begin go through again.
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