The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of DeathLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 315 oldal |
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39. oldal
... tion of cruelty , notwithstanding the severity of their laws . But are men who have a natural contempt of death , and who rip open their bellies for the least fancy ; are such men , 1 say , mended or deterred , or rather are they not ...
... tion of cruelty , notwithstanding the severity of their laws . But are men who have a natural contempt of death , and who rip open their bellies for the least fancy ; are such men , 1 say , mended or deterred , or rather are they not ...
42. oldal
... tion in punishments , because it is essential that a great crime should be avoided rather than a smaller , and that which is more pernicious to society , rather than that which is less . * Chap . xiv . + The guilty were condemned to a ...
... tion in punishments , because it is essential that a great crime should be avoided rather than a smaller , and that which is more pernicious to society , rather than that which is less . * Chap . xiv . + The guilty were condemned to a ...
45. oldal
... tion of our judgments , and in the benevolent dispositions of our will . And yet nothing is more true than that these good in- fluences have either never been produced , or , if produced , that they have never been attended to upon this ...
... tion of our judgments , and in the benevolent dispositions of our will . And yet nothing is more true than that these good in- fluences have either never been produced , or , if produced , that they have never been attended to upon this ...
62. oldal
... tion and as they are certainly punished if discovered , so they cannot hope to escape ; for their habit being in all the parts of it different from what is commonly worn , they cannot fly away , unless they would go naked , and even ...
... tion and as they are certainly punished if discovered , so they cannot hope to escape ; for their habit being in all the parts of it different from what is commonly worn , they cannot fly away , unless they would go naked , and even ...
67. oldal
... tion , and I recommended his making a motion with his foot , he said he would . Nothing now remained but the last painful ceremony . I ordered his palanquin to be placed close under the gallows , but he chose to walk , which he did more ...
... tion , and I recommended his making a motion with his foot , he said he would . Nothing now remained but the last painful ceremony . I ordered his palanquin to be placed close under the gallows , but he chose to walk , which he did more ...
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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.