There the bankrupt was taught how he might, without sin, secrete his goods from his creditors.

The servant was taught how he might, without sin, run off with his master's plate.

The pandar was assured that a Christian man might innocently earn his living by carrying letters and messages between married women and their gallants.
The high spirited and punctilious gentlemen of France were gratified by a decision in favour of duelling.

The Italians, accustomed to darker and baser modes of vengeance, were glad to learn that they might, without any crime, shoot at their enemies from behind hedges.

To deceit was given a license sufficient to destroy the whole value of human contracts and of human testimony.