Why, then, is this prerogative of punishment, so eminently paternal, to be withheld from a paternal government?

The German States are exceedingly paternal in the care they take of their subjects.

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Here he was safe, and knew it; a faithful old butler of the antique and provincial breed is apt to be more unreasonably paternal than Pater himself.