Considerations on Criminal Law, Volume 3T. Longman and T. Cadell, 1774 |
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Considerations on Criminal Law, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) Henry Dagge Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2017 |
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Pagina 140 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Pagina 166 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the heart of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Pagina 81 - ... on the face of the earth, who will echo to me from the bottom of their hearts; and if...
Pagina 120 - ... leaving the law to the court, but find for the plaintiff or defendant upon the issue to be tried, wherein they resolve both law and fact complicately...
Pagina 178 - ... rather be transported than hanged. Life in any Condition, but that of extreme Misery, will be preferred to Death. As long, therefore, as there remains this wide Door of Escape, the Number of Thieves and Robbers at Home, will perpetually multiply, and their Depredations be incessantly reiterated.
Pagina 81 - How happy were mankind if laws were now to be first formed! now that we see on the thrones of Europe benevolent monarchs, friends to the virtues of peace, to the arts and sciences, fathers of their people, though crowned, yet citizens; the increase of whose authority augments the happiness of their subjects, by destroying that inter.
Pagina 178 - Life in any condition, but that of extreme misery, will be preferred to death. As long, therefore, as there remains this wide door of escape, the number of thieves and robbers at home will perpetually multiply, and their depredations be incessantly reiterated.
Pagina 120 - A man cannot see by another's eye, nor hear by another's ear. No more can a man conclude or infer the thing to be resolved by another's understanding or reasoning.
Pagina 80 - That a punishment may not be an act of violence, of one, or of many against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; the least possible in the case given; proportioned to the crime, and determined by the laws.
Pagina 177 - Villains, I verily believe: but so great is the Mistake, that confident I am, they are thereby, on the contrary, highly rewarded. For what, in God's Name, can be more agreeable to a penurious Wretch, driven, through...