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Click Here To Edit 12 C Of obstinate waster or usurpation. Destruction or Endamagement.
would not part with it for a hundred pound.
Your adversary knowing this gets possession of
the ring and destroys it. For according to the rule
of judging which his malevolence suggests to him
it may be very well worth his while to pay
a guinea for the pleasure of exposing You to
so great a mortification. If the case is that he
sets the same ideal value on the ring that You
do, the person for instance whose hair is in it
having been beloved by him as well as by You,
so that instead of damaging or destroying it
he means to keep it,in such case as an additional motive
to the above pleasure of malevolence,
he will have the pleasure of possessing the
thing on which he sets so high a value.
It is plain therefore that a punishment
must be capable of being rendered very severe:
in order to be able to surmount in all cases
the force of incitements which are apt liable to be so
powerful.
2. It may be observed too that this offence
approaches
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