The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of DeathLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 315 стор. |
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... seem willing to despair of its efficacy , and of those who employ their speculations upon the present corruptions of the people , some propose the introduction of more horrid , and lingering , terrific punishments ; some are inclined to ...
... seem willing to despair of its efficacy , and of those who employ their speculations upon the present corruptions of the people , some propose the introduction of more horrid , and lingering , terrific punishments ; some are inclined to ...
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... ex- citing pity . The gibbet , indeed , certainly disables those who die upon it from infesting the community ; but their death seems not to contribute more to the reformation of their associates , than 4 DR . JOHNSON .
... ex- citing pity . The gibbet , indeed , certainly disables those who die upon it from infesting the community ; but their death seems not to contribute more to the reformation of their associates , than 4 DR . JOHNSON .
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... seem to want revision and amendment . These have chiefly arisen from too scrupulous an adherence to some rules of the ancient common law , when the reasons have ceased upon which those rules were founded ; from not repealing such of the ...
... seem to want revision and amendment . These have chiefly arisen from too scrupulous an adherence to some rules of the ancient common law , when the reasons have ceased upon which those rules were founded ; from not repealing such of the ...
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... seems to have well studied the springs of human action + , that crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than by the severity of punishment . For the excessive severity of laws ( says Montesquieu ‡ ) hinders their ...
... seems to have well studied the springs of human action + , that crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than by the severity of punishment . For the excessive severity of laws ( says Montesquieu ‡ ) hinders their ...
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... seems rather to be the beginning than the end of their misery . The mind , by collecting itself and uniting all its force , can , for a moment , repel assailing grief ; but its most vi- gorous efforts are insufficient to resist ...
... seems rather to be the beginning than the end of their misery . The mind , by collecting itself and uniting all its force , can , for a moment , repel assailing grief ; but its most vi- gorous efforts are insufficient to resist ...
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The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death, Том 3 Basil Montagu Повний перегляд - 1813 |
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Сторінка 288 - Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
Сторінка 17 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Сторінка 185 - Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Сторінка 5 - ... therefore, rarely hinders the commission of a crime, but naturally and commonly prevents its detection, and is, if we proceed only upon prudential principles, chiefly for that reason to be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart is equally criminal, will scarcely believe that two malefactors so different in guilt can be justly doomed to the same punishment...
Сторінка 119 - Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Сторінка 5 - He who knows not how often rigorous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which there is no repentance, has conversed very little with mankind.
Сторінка 16 - If mathematical calculation could be applied to the obscure and infinite combinations of human actions, there might be a corresponding scale of punishments, descending from the greatest to the least: but it will be sufficient that the wise legislator mark the principal divisions, without disturbing the order, lest to crimes of the first degree be assigned punishments of the last.
Сторінка 2 - The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution without asking himself: 'Who knows whether this man is not less culpable than me?' On the days when the prisons of this city are emptied into the grave let every spectator of the dreadful procession put the same question to his own heart.