 | 1846 - 590 oldal
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred aud sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy...to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list," adds the learned jurist, "increases the number of offenders." Such a criminal code was, indeed, very... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1847 - 440 oldal
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an 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." This was written about the year 1760, and in 1809, when Sir Samuel Romilly devoted himself to the arduous... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1848 - 284 oldal
...actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty had been declared, by Act of Parliament, to be felonies, without benefit of...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." This was very horrible; and yet this mistaken severity was the result, not of obedience to the law,... | |
 | John Saunders - 1848 - 434 oldal
...no less than 160 have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy.* So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders." (See Commentaries, 10.) Nay, Ministers of the Established Church there were, who, with the opinions... | |
 | 1856 - 568 oldal
...no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of Parliament, to be felonies withon the benefit of clergy; or in other words, to be worthy...injured through compassion, will often forbear to prose e«te; juries, through compassion.wfll some times forget their oaths, and either ac quit the... | |
 | 1908 - 678 oldal
...IV. chap, i., it is stated that there were no fewer than 160 offences which had been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. Walpole says in his ' History of England,' vol. ii. p. 58, that " during the earlier years of the present... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 684 oldal
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have- been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies, without benefit of...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.* It is an indelible disgrace to an age which boasts of its being enlightened with the beams of science... | |
 | 1851 - 608 oldal
...actions which men are liable daily to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty are declared by act of parliament to be felonies, without benefit of clergy...or in other words, to be worthy of instant death." We will enumerate some of the offences made capital by the legislature of this Christian nation. Murder,... | |
 | 1851 - 702 oldal
...less than one hundred and sixty are declared by act of parliament to bo felonies, without berfefit of clergy ; or in other words, to be worthy of instant death." We will enumerate some of the offences made capital by the legislature of this Christian nation. Murder,... | |
 | George Washington Quinby - 1856 - 346 oldal
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one 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." A writer in the London Morning Herald, puts the number at rising two hundred. France, Germany, Poland... | |
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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... 
