I should advise that those examples of severity by which 'tis designed… — Essays
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I should advise that those examples of severity by which 'tis designed to retain the people in their duty, might be exercised upon the dead bodies of criminals; for to see them deprived of sepulture, to see them boiled and divided into quarters, would almost work as much upon the vulgar, as the pain they make the living endure; though that in effect be little or nothing, as God himself says, "Who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do;"--[Luke, xii. 4.]--and the poets singularly dwell upon the horrors of this picture, as something worse than death:
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