 To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime, to prevent the detection of a less.  The Rambler - Сторінка 276автори: Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 стор.
...from relaxations of the law, and a more rational and equitable adaptation of penalties to offences. To equal robbery with murder, is to reduce murder...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less. If only murder were punished with... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 стор.
...from invasion what cannot be restored. To equal robbery with murder, is to reduce murder to robberv, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less. If only murder were punished by death,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 728 стор.
...from invasion what cannot be restored. To equal robbery with murder, is to reduce murder to robberv, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less. If only murder wore punished by death,... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 стор.
...sanctions, and placed before the treasure of life, to guard from invasion what cannot be restored. To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less. If only murder were punished with... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1988 - 466 стор.
...Rambler, no. 114 (20 Apr. 1751) Johnson seems to be responding direcdy to this paragraph in Fielding: 'To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less.' See JL and B. Hammond, 'Poverty,... | |
 | Thomas M. Curley - 1998 - 728 стор.
...from Chambers, who implemented the farsighted humanitarianism recommended by Johnson in Rambler l l4: "To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder...confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity." Even under Impey, Chambers single-handedly, and unsuccessfully at first, tried to infuse some clemency... | |
 | Joyce Lee Malcolm - 2009 - 370 стор.
...murder, the offender had little incentive to spare the life of a victim. As Dr. Johnson pointed out, "to equal robbery with murder, is to reduce murder...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a great crime to prevent the detection of a less."22 Furthermore, although numerous offences... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1871 - 576 стор.
...sanctions, " and placed before the treasure of life to guard from invasion what " cannot be restored. To equal robbery with murder, is to reduce " murder...minds the gradations " of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to " prevent the detection of a less. If only murder were punished "... | |
 | 1751 - 668 стор.
...laft refort of authority, as the ftrongeft and moft operative of prohibitory fanaions, and placed only before the treafure of life, to guard from invafion...cannot be reftored. To equal robbery with murder, is to reducemurder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of injury, and incite the commiflion... | |
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