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criticism may dictate would be an improvement . There , indicates the spot where the transaction took place , and harmonizes well with the fact intended to be illustrated . It was the garden itself , the identical garden , then and there to be recognised as the sole and important scene of action . 2 <\ . * Have been * he .
O ! they have been , have they ? It follows , then , that whether welcome or unwelcome , whether doing their duty or violating the laws of possession , whether commendable or injurious in their visit , whether they succeeded in their intentions or quitted the premises in alarm , yet still they have been ; and there can be no absolute claim upon them , either in law or in equity , to come again . So far they are free from blame , and if not ultimately discovered , as free from punishment .
3 d . * Some thieves . ' How beautifully idiomatic is our vernacular tongue , and here exemplified by our narrator with all the laconic energy that inquiry could desire . Some—then there must be a plural number—there must at least be two , and beyond this we may launch out almost to infinity ; and this proves the correct and good feeling of the
expression . The writer evinces no desire to impose on the credulity of his readers ; you infer at once , from the modesty of the phrase , that if he saw them yet still he did not count them , or if he meant to convey the idea that he did not see them , how ingeniously he insinuates that he himself was not of the party , and therefore that he is well entitled to the admission of his evidence ,
as far as it may be useful . In the present stage of the inquiry , no correctness can be attempted as to the exact number of these nocturnal gentry ; of one fact we may , however , be certain , that they could not amount to 1 , 000 , 000 , and it remains as the groundwork of a speculative calculation where the probability of the number ends , and where the impossibility begins . 4 th . ' Thieve * :
A very ugly word this , but far too useful to be expunged from our judicial vocabulary ; as with a slight degree of ingenuity it may be made ' to cover a multitude of sinners . * It may suit the civil authorities to brand petty transgressions with every epithet that contempt or indignation can apply or invent ; but if every class of freebooters had its proper and expressive nomenclature , our dictionaries would lack words for the purpose . From the humble dealer , who purloins a cabbage or a handkerchief , or him who spends an hour at midnight in wrenching a brass plate from a door , and * hich , perhaps , he can sell for no more than twopence ; to hiaa * ho dexterously unburdens a coach of * banker ' s parcel , containing the amount , perhaps , of £ 4000 or £ 5000 , or him who sells his services a 9 a treacherous spy on his suffering eountrymea , * nd urge * thwi to th # wimbiw of what 1 » « ftarw » nb brttfty * , or
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/35/
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