The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death |
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... mankind pleading in their favour . From this conviction of the inequality of the punishment to the offence , procceds the frequent solicitation of pardons . They who would rejoice at the correction of a thief , are yet shocked at the ...
... mankind pleading in their favour . From this conviction of the inequality of the punishment to the offence , procceds the frequent solicitation of pardons . They who would rejoice at the correction of a thief , are yet shocked at the ...
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... mankind ) as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart is equally criminal , will scarcely believe that two malefactors so different in guilt can be justly docmed to the same punishment ; nor is the necessity ...
... mankind ) as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart is equally criminal , will scarcely believe that two malefactors so different in guilt can be justly docmed to the same punishment ; nor is the necessity ...
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... mankind : though it sometimes ( provided there be no transgression of these eternal boundaries ) may be modified , narrowed , or enlarged , according to the local or occasional necessities of the state which it is meant to govern . And ...
... mankind : though it sometimes ( provided there be no transgression of these eternal boundaries ) may be modified , narrowed , or enlarged , according to the local or occasional necessities of the state which it is meant to govern . And ...
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... mankind ; since all are by nature equal . Whereof the first murderer Cain was so sensible , that we find him * expressing his apprehensions , that whoever should find him would slay him . In a state of society this right is transferred ...
... mankind ; since all are by nature equal . Whereof the first murderer Cain was so sensible , that we find him * expressing his apprehensions , that whoever should find him would slay him . In a state of society this right is transferred ...
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... mankind ; as , in the case of murder , by the precept delivered to Noah , their com mon ancestor and representative + , " Whoso sheddeth man's blood , by man shall his blood be shed . " In other instances they are inflicted after the ...
... mankind ; as , in the case of murder , by the precept delivered to Noah , their com mon ancestor and representative + , " Whoso sheddeth man's blood , by man shall his blood be shed . " In other instances they are inflicted after the ...
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