But now the question follows, what punishment can human laws inflict on one who has withdrawn himself from their reach? They can only act upon what he has left behind him, his reputation and fortune: on the former, by an ignominious burial in the highway,... Memoirs of the life and writings of ... Henry Home of Kames [by A.F. Tytler]. - Page 76 by Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 Full view -
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