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Crimes and Punishments. 16$
The philofopher has neceflities and interefts
unknown to the vulgar, and the chief of thefe
is not to belie in public the principles he taught
in obfcurity, and the habit of loving virtue for
its own fake. A few fuch philofophers would
conftitute the happinefs of a nation; which how¬
ever would be but of fliort duration, unlefs by
good laws the number were fo increafed as to
leflen the probability of an improper choice.
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Essay on crimes and punishments
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Description	By the Marquis Beccaria of Milan. With a commentary by M. de Voltaire
Shelfmark	ABS.1.86.85
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1778 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Crime (social issue) Criminals Punishing Essays Legislation (declaration of laws)
Person / organisation:	Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794 [Author] Voltaire, 1694-1778 [Commentator for written text] Donaldson, Alexander, -1794 [Bookseller]
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