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the extreme vengeance of the law , or to suffer aa iofamous a ^ d unprincipled man to be at full liberty to pursue & $ former system of fraud and plunder * I have already intimated that 1 chose the latter * For many years no con * viction bad taktii place under the act which makes thib offence a capital felony ; and the depredations
com an tied on the trading part of the community by fraudulent bankrupts are too \\ r \\ known to most oi your readers to need any observation here ^ In a word , I was fully aware of the propriety , not only of punishing the man , with a view to his individual
reformation , but also of making a p . ubiic example , to deter others from similar practices ; and had our criminal laws allowed a possibility of doing this by as severe a
punishment ay they inflict short of death , I should have felt it an imperious duty to proceed in the prosecution , and the ends of jus * lice would not have been
frustrated : but such is the law and such are the consequences in numberless other cases , some of which will no do ^ bft he communicated by those of your correspondents who feel an interest ia the success of your benevolent undertaking . S . C .
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The Book-fymm . No , JI . S ** , April 5 ^ 1 . 812 * , In your first volume [ f * p . 137 « , 192 f a $ & . ] y ° u inserted some tetter * writ *
ten by Franhlm , in his old age * aoti whic h afteuvmrds appeared ibl the last collection of his w otks * in 3 \ o \ 9 f i 8 hcu , I now offe * you a short piece , comparatively juvenile , which escaped the . notice of
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those who formed that collection * It is a preface to the translation of a well-known classic of which Franklin was at once the Editor ami the Printer . As probably very few specimens of his pres * remain , I will give the title page and preface verbatim , from a copy now before me . M . T . Cicero ' s Cato Major , or His Discourse of Old-Age . With Expla * nat&ry Notes . Philadelphia * Printed and Sold by B . Franklin ,
MDCCXLIV-*' : The Printer to the Reader * T ^ iis version of Cicerofs tract de Sen ^ ctute ^ was made ten years since , by the honourable and learned Mr , Logan , of this city ;
undertaken partly for his own amuseinent , ( being then in his 60 th year , which is said to be nearly the age of the author when he wrote it , ) but principally for the entertainment of a neighbour then
in his grand climacteric ; and the notes were drawn up solely on that neighbour ' s account , who was not so well acquainted as himself with the Ionian History and language : some other fronds , however , ( a-
mong whom I had the honour to be ranked ) obtained copies of it in MS . And , as I believed it to lie in itself equal at . least , if not far preferable to any other translation of the same piece extant in our languageJbesides . the advantage
it has of po mamf valuable notes , which at the sante titue they clear up the text , are highly instructive and entertaining ; I resolved to give it au irnp ^ essiop , being confident that the public would not Unfavourably receive it .
A certain freedman of Citptro's k repotted Uv have « aid of a m « diciu # well , discovered in bi » time , wondkeiittl for the virtue of its * * .. . . ¦ ¦
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234 The Baol . Worm . No . II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/26/
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