The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of DeathLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 315 oldal |
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7. oldal
... cause of his death . If you do not pity his momentary lapse , if you do not respect his return to virtue , it would have been well for me if I had died ! It is me that you will condemn , I shall be the victim of the law , and he gave me ...
... cause of his death . If you do not pity his momentary lapse , if you do not respect his return to virtue , it would have been well for me if I had died ! It is me that you will condemn , I shall be the victim of the law , and he gave me ...
9. oldal
... causes , it hath happened , that the criminal law is in every country of Europe more rude and imperfect than the civil . I shall not here enter into any minute inquiries concerning the local constitutions of other nations ; the ...
... causes , it hath happened , that the criminal law is in every country of Europe more rude and imperfect than the civil . I shall not here enter into any minute inquiries concerning the local constitutions of other nations ; the ...
11. oldal
... causes , which was one of the evils that civil government was intended to remedy . Whatever power , therefore , individuals had of punishing offences against the law of nature , that is now vested in the magistrate alone ; who bears the ...
... causes , which was one of the evils that civil government was intended to remedy . Whatever power , therefore , individuals had of punishing offences against the law of nature , that is now vested in the magistrate alone ; who bears the ...
20. oldal
... caused or tolerated by the laws , which favoured the few and outraged the many , had forced in despair to return to a state of nature ; or accused of impossible crimes , the fabric of ignorance and superstition ; or guilty only of hav ...
... caused or tolerated by the laws , which favoured the few and outraged the many , had forced in despair to return to a state of nature ; or accused of impossible crimes , the fabric of ignorance and superstition ; or guilty only of hav ...
21. oldal
... cause of humanity . The death of a citizen cannot be necessary , but in one case . When , though deprived of his liberty , he has such power and connections as may endanger the security of the nation ; when his existence may produce a ...
... cause of humanity . The death of a citizen cannot be necessary , but in one case . When , though deprived of his liberty , he has such power and connections as may endanger the security of the nation ; when his existence may produce a ...
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288. oldal - Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
17. oldal - 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.
185. oldal - 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.
5. oldal - ... 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...
119. oldal - 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.
5. oldal - 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.
16. oldal - 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.
2. oldal - 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.