 | 1795 - 432 pagina’s
...barbarity, the more horrible as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it not absurd that the laws, which detest and punish homicide,...publicly commit murder themselves ?— What are the natural sentiments of every person concerning the punishment of death ? We may read them in the contempt... | |
 | 1804 - 474 pagina’s
...exarnples of barbarity, the more horrible as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. What are the natural sentiments of every person concerning the punishment of death ? We may read them in the contempt and indignation with which every one looks on the executioner, who... | |
 | 1811 - 538 pagina’s
...the laws that punish homicide, should, in order to prevent murder, public kly commit it themselves ? What are the natural sentiments of every person concerning the punishment of death .' We may read them in the conten-.pt and indignation with which every one looks on the Executioner,... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - 1819 - 248 pagina’s
...barbarity, the more horrible as this punishment is usually attended with formal pa. geantry. Is it not absurd, that the laws, which detest and punish homicide,...of every person concerning the punishment of death ? We may read them in the contempt and indignation with which every one looks on the executioner, who... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 pagina’s
...examples of barbarity, the more horrible, as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. What are the true and most useful laws ? Those compacts...of every person concerning the punishment of death ? We may read them in the contempt and indignation with which every one looks on the executioner, who... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 796 pagina’s
...courtesy of Plato, has more than once been called " 6 &v8puroi."* " But what," exclaims Beccaria, " are the natural sentiments of every person concerning the punishment of death ? We may read them in the contempt and indignation with which every one looks on the executioner,f... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1834 - 444 pagina’s
...There is much of justice in an observation of Beccaria's. " Is it not absurd that the laws which detect and punish homicide should, in order to prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves ?"* By the procedures of a court, we virtually and perhaps literally expatiate upon the sacredness... | |
 | 1846 - 670 pagina’s
...murder itself. " There is much justice," says Dymond, " in an observation of Beccaria, ' Is it not absurd that the laws which detest and punish homicide...prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves ?' " It would be a waste of time to point out all the absurdities involved in this charge of absurdity... | |
 | 1846 - 668 pagina’s
...murder itself. " There is much justice," says Dymond, " in an observation of Beccaria, ' Is it not absurd that the laws which detest and punish homicide...prevent murder, publicly commit murder themselves ?' " It would be a waste of time to point out all the absurdities involved in this charge of absurdity... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1846 - 660 pagina’s
...examples of barbarity, the more horrible, as this punishment is usually attended with forma] pageantry. What are the natural sentiments of every person concerning the punishment of death ? We may read them in the contempt and indignation with which every one looks on the executioner, who... | |
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... the laws, which are intended to moderate the ferocity of mankind, should not increase it by examples of barbarity, the more horrible as this punishment is usually attended with formal pageantry. Is it not absurd, that the laws, which detest and punish... 
