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... minds with variety and delight : sometimes for ornament and reputation : and some- times to enable them to victory of ... mind to raise itself upon or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention : or a shop for profit and sale ...
... minds with variety and delight : sometimes for ornament and reputation : and some- times to enable them to victory of ... mind to raise itself upon or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention : or a shop for profit and sale ...
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... minds the gradations of iniquity , and incite the commis- sion of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less . If only murder were punished with death , very few robbers would stain their bands in blood ; but when , by the last ...
... minds the gradations of iniquity , and incite the commis- sion of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less . If only murder were punished with death , very few robbers would stain their bands in blood ; but when , by the last ...
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... minds with the horrors of his death . All laws against wickedness are ineffectual , unless some will inform , and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property , information will always be ...
... minds with the horrors of his death . All laws against wickedness are ineffectual , unless some will inform , and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property , information will always be ...
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... dic- tated laws of iron to slaves and savages , and in private , instiga- ted the subject to sacrifice one tyrant to make room for another . In proportion as punishments became more cruel , the minds 18 MARQUIS BECCARIA.
... dic- tated laws of iron to slaves and savages , and in private , instiga- ted the subject to sacrifice one tyrant to make room for another . In proportion as punishments became more cruel , the minds 18 MARQUIS BECCARIA.
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Basil Montagu. In proportion as punishments became more cruel , the minds of men , as a fluid rises to the same height as that which sur- rounds it , grow hardened and insensible ; and the force of the passions still continuing , in the ...
Basil Montagu. In proportion as punishments became more cruel , the minds of men , as a fluid rises to the same height as that which sur- rounds it , grow hardened and insensible ; and the force of the passions still continuing , in the ...
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