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 But no man is expelled for being wort, he is expelled for being enormouly bad; his conduct is compared, not with that of others, but with the rule of action.

punihment of expulion being in its own nature uncertain, may be too great or too little for the fault.

mut be the cae of many punihments. Forfeiture of chattels is nothing to him that has no poeions. Exile itelf may be accidentally a good; and indeed any punihment les than death is very different to different men.

if this precedent be admitted and etablihed, no man can hereafter be ure that he hall be repreented by him whom he would chooe. One half of the Houe may meet early in the morning, and match an opportunity to expel the other, and the greater part of the nation may by this tratagem