The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death, כרך 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1812 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 53
עמוד xiii
... measure their own design , by sinking men's abhorrence of the crime in their commiseration of the criminal . But if a mode of execution could be devised , which would augment the horror of the punishment , without offending or impairing ...
... measure their own design , by sinking men's abhorrence of the crime in their commiseration of the criminal . But if a mode of execution could be devised , which would augment the horror of the punishment , without offending or impairing ...
עמוד 12
... measure is neither neces- sary nor useful to that good , I shall have gained the cause of humanity . There are but two motives which can render the death of a ⚫citizen necessary . In those agitated moments , when a nation is on the ...
... measure is neither neces- sary nor useful to that good , I shall have gained the cause of humanity . There are but two motives which can render the death of a ⚫citizen necessary . In those agitated moments , when a nation is on the ...
עמוד 60
... measure , the quantum of the second and third lots , and thereby also of a part of the fourth lot , in the evil of the [ b ] The value punishment . 2. The extraordinary value of the ser- vices of some one delinquent ; in the case where ...
... measure , the quantum of the second and third lots , and thereby also of a part of the fourth lot , in the evil of the [ b ] The value punishment . 2. The extraordinary value of the ser- vices of some one delinquent ; in the case where ...
עמוד 70
... measure , indeed , for the same purpose ; but principally for guiding the judge in his endeavours to conform , on both sides , to the in- tentions of the legislator . XVI . Let us look back a little . The first rule , in order to render ...
... measure , indeed , for the same purpose ; but principally for guiding the judge in his endeavours to conform , on both sides , to the in- tentions of the legislator . XVI . Let us look back a little . The first rule , in order to render ...
עמוד 81
... measured out with the utmost nicety : being divisible by time , at least , if by nothing else . They are not , therefore , any of them defective in point of variability and yet , in many cases , this defect in point of equability may ...
... measured out with the utmost nicety : being divisible by time , at least , if by nothing else . They are not , therefore , any of them defective in point of variability and yet , in many cases , this defect in point of equability may ...
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עמוד xvii - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
עמוד 187 - Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness, and live...
עמוד 388 - Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of the said Act as is herein-before recited shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
עמוד 117 - The good LORD pardon every one That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
עמוד 121 - Parliament, statutes and ordains that there be a school settled and established and a schoolmaster appointed in every parish not already provided by advice of the heritors and minister of the parish...
עמוד 69 - It is further to be observed, that owing to the different manners and degrees in which persons under different circumstances are affected by the same exciting cause, a punishment which is the same in name will not always either really produce, or even so much as appear to others to produce, in two different persons the same degree of pain : therefore, That the quantity actually inflicted on each individual offender may correspond to the quantity intended for similar offenders in general, the several...
עמוד 235 - They ought rather to reflect, that he who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country ; whilst he suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained and upholden. CHAPTER X. OF RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS, AND OF TOLERATION. ' A RELIGIOUS establishment is no part of Christianity ; it is only the means of inculcating it.
עמוד 385 - Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that so much of the said Act as...
עמוד 387 - ... of the value of forty shillings or more, being in any dwelling-house, or outhouse thereunto belonging, although such house or outhouse be not actually broken by such offender, and although the owner of such goods, or any other person or persons be or be not in such house or outhouse, being thereof convicted, shall be absolutely debarred of and from the benefit of clergy.
עמוד 186 - When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.