JB/071/186/003

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67 C Of Frauds relative to the Coin. Reasons

that he was never to be trusted; that he had put off his habits
of industry, if he ever had any, and lost his talents for want of
exercise; and in a word that he was become totally irresponsible.
With a Coiner the case is very different. The very talent which
fits a man for practising this ingenious though dishonest species
of industry is a kind of fund of responsibility of which
the very punishment that marks his crime will certify
him to be in possession. It will at the same time be a
pledge of his future good behaviour with respect to offences
of mere indigence: since while he possesses it he is enabled
commonly to make such a profit at 1 a place where he is
settled as he could not readily be sure of making at any other.
A man who can do nothing for example but dig,
may get at one place as well as at another such low
wages as are to be got for digging: but a man who understands
silver chasing for instance or engraving can get the
extraordinary wages that are given for such ingenious
work at no other than the few places at which such work
is to be done. He gave way , yielded, it will be said, to a great temptation,

Identifier: | JB/071/186/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	186	Info in main headings field	of frauds relative to the coin
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f65 / f66 / f67 / f68
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23589
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