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Quote: punishment must proceed from public authority; not private revenge, nor injury to private people

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ethics

Quotation

From the definition of Punishment, I inferre, First, that neither private revenges, nor injuries of private men, can properly be stiled Punishments; because they proceed not from publique Authority.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923


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