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17.5 C Of Simple Merchantile Defraudment

more advantages than it were to be wished it had over indigent
merit: and an artificial arrangement of this sort would
add to the natural incitements which urge a man from all
quarters to seek the acquirement of wealth by dishonesty
and other unworthy means. As to the affections of the people,
so striking and oppressive a preference given to the
less numerous class over the more numerous will naturally
be but ill relished by the latter.

The difference, it is true, is rather apparent than
real: for a man in responsible circumstances may probably
in point of fact suffer as much by being deprived of part
of his property, considering the share of reputation that
goes along with it, as a man in irresponsible circumstances
would be by being made to undergo a severe corporal punishment:
and if both were to undergo the same corporal
punishment, the punishment, that is the suffering, though
nominally [the same equal,] would in reality be very much the reverse. much greater to the latter.]
But this distinction , however real, is too subtle to be generally

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	157	Info in main headings field	of simple mercantile defraudment
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[ec with crown] [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23560
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