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46 C
Diss. Of Falshoods in general
the public may be affected: it may yet be much more
considerable. Of this sort is the that Under this kind come the being reports
of imaginary fictitious disasters so often spread in time of war: falsities
by which the universal distress is produced, the
natural spirit depressed, and oftentimes no inconsiderable a good pact of
occasioned of the very the calamitics occasioned which the supposed disaster
could have produced if true. Hence also
a particular is apt to arise an inconvenience peculiar to
those nations which have public funds. Upon The
depression of the funds being depressed the state is impoverished
by borrowing at an advanced price: and individuals
of the class of stock-holders are made
sufferers not to the not unfrequently to the ruin of their fortunes.
When the intent is to make a profit
by a fluctuation thus produced the offence is an
extreme aggravated species of fraud.
In this case the characteristic
Characteristic punishment of the lying newsmonger's trumpet Where the mischief is then public in it's
nature, the characteristic quality of the punishment
might be enhanced by an additional ceremony,
which might be termed the the punishment of the lying
news-mongers trumpet. a
NOTE
To p. 62. at top
Identifier: | JB/071/068/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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penal code |
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068 |
of falshoods in general |
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f43 / f44 / f45 / f46 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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