 | Thomas Erskine May - 1866 - 646 oldal
...greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick a pocket and to pierce the heart are equally criminal, will scarcely believe that two malefactors,...guilt, can be justly doomed to the same punishment." — Rambler, i. 114; Works, iii. 275. In this admirable essay, published in 1751, the restriction of... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1871 - 588 oldal
...think that to pick a pocket and to pierce the heart are equally criminal, will scarcely believe thi'.t two malefactors, so different in guilt, can be justly doomed to the same punishment.' — Bambler, i. 114; Works, iii. 275. In this admirable essay, published in 1751, the restriction of... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1875 - 530 oldal
...greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick a pocket and to pierce the heart are equally criminal, will scarcely believe that two malefactors,...so different in guilt, can be justly doomed to the s:ime punishment."—Rambler, i. 114; Works, iii. 275. In this admirable essay, published in 1751,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 oldal
...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...tender, and the just, will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their private judgment cannot approve. He who knows not how often... | |
 | Coleman Phillipson - 1923 - 376 oldal
...casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocker and to pierce the heart is equally criminal, will...guilt can be justly doomed to the same punishment. . . . Till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be hated... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 oldal
...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...tender, and the just, will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their private judgment cannot approve. " He who knows not how often... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 894 oldal
...greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart are equally criminal, will scarcely believe that two malefactors...clearly stated, or so generally allowed, but that tlie pious, the tender, and the just will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which... | |
 | 1751 - 668 oldal
...be avoided. Whatever may be urged by cafuifts or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think, that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart are equal, will fcarcely believe, that two malefactors fo different in guilt can be juftly doomed to... | |
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... 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,... 
