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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
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The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
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The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of…
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than…
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THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.…
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
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The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous…
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The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,…
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Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since…
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This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about…
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