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[[deletion]] but, what is lighter [[/deletion]] ; but was it because it was a lighter punis^[[addition]] h [[/addition]]ment; where is the consistsa ^[[addition]] e [[/addition]]ncy to observe the law in a lesser, & brake it in a greater instance ? for who will blame what is decreed [[deletion]] agaisnst [[/deletion]] [[addition]] against [[/addition]] the destroyers of their own country? [[deletion]] the [[/deletion]] Times, some particular juncture, fortune, who at her humour governs kingdoms. Whatever happens to them will happen as they deserve: O! Conscript Fathers, what ever You decree against them, let it be done considerately. All bad examples arise from domestick examples: but when the command [[deletion]] was [[/deletion]] [[addition]] is [[/addition]] in the hands of the bad or of the less good; this new
