The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death |
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... certainty than by the severity of punishment . For the excessive severity of laws ( says Montesquieu ‡ ) hinders their execution : when the pu nishment surpasses all measure , the public will frequently , out of humanity , prefer ...
... certainty than by the severity of punishment . For the excessive severity of laws ( says Montesquieu ‡ ) hinders their execution : when the pu nishment surpasses all measure , the public will frequently , out of humanity , prefer ...
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... certainty , than the severity of punishment . Hence in a magistrate , the necessity of vigilance , and in a judge of implacability , which , that it may become an useful virtue , should be joined to a mild legislation . The certainty of ...
... certainty , than the severity of punishment . Hence in a magistrate , the necessity of vigilance , and in a judge of implacability , which , that it may become an useful virtue , should be joined to a mild legislation . The certainty of ...
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... certainty of the punish- ment , and the privation of the expected advantage . All seve- rity beyond this is superfluous , and therefore tyrannical . Men regulate their conduct by the repeated impression of evils they know , and not by ...
... certainty of the punish- ment , and the privation of the expected advantage . All seve- rity beyond this is superfluous , and therefore tyrannical . Men regulate their conduct by the repeated impression of evils they know , and not by ...
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... and promising him almost a certainty of eternal happiness upon the easy terms of repentance , contributes much to lessen the horror of the last scene of the tragedy . But he who foresees , that he must pass a 24 MARQUIS BECCARIA .
... and promising him almost a certainty of eternal happiness upon the easy terms of repentance , contributes much to lessen the horror of the last scene of the tragedy . But he who foresees , that he must pass a 24 MARQUIS BECCARIA .
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... conducit reipublicæ , vel ei qui male . ficio læsus est . - Erasmi Exomologesis , seu Modus Confitendi .-- Erasmi Opera , Edit le Clerc , tom v . p . 167 , LORD BACON . PUBLISHED ABOUT THE YEAR 1620 . CERTAINTY 59 ERASMUS.
... conducit reipublicæ , vel ei qui male . ficio læsus est . - Erasmi Exomologesis , seu Modus Confitendi .-- Erasmi Opera , Edit le Clerc , tom v . p . 167 , LORD BACON . PUBLISHED ABOUT THE YEAR 1620 . CERTAINTY 59 ERASMUS.
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