The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1813 - Capital punishment |
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... either the vigilance of this house to detect or its power to destroy the growth of a principle the instant it de- generates into evil ? C ---- That the measures submitted to our consideration ought to SHOP - LIFTING AND CANAL BILLS . 9.
... either the vigilance of this house to detect or its power to destroy the growth of a principle the instant it de- generates into evil ? C ---- That the measures submitted to our consideration ought to SHOP - LIFTING AND CANAL BILLS . 9.
Page 11
... evil has been prevented or he is pre- judiced in favour of new proposals from which so much good is expected , I do not pretend to determine . It is at present suf- ficient for me to state that the reasoning of my honourable and learned ...
... evil has been prevented or he is pre- judiced in favour of new proposals from which so much good is expected , I do not pretend to determine . It is at present suf- ficient for me to state that the reasoning of my honourable and learned ...
Page 15
... evil not only from the augmentation of the offence but the atro- city of the offenders , who have been heard openly to avow that , as their lives are not endangered , they will live well by their de- predations . Such is the opinion of ...
... evil not only from the augmentation of the offence but the atro- city of the offenders , who have been heard openly to avow that , as their lives are not endangered , they will live well by their de- predations . Such is the opinion of ...
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... evil and public calamity . Let us not be deluded by the supposition that the alterations are apparently trivial . By taking out a single peg from the wheels of the mighty machinery of a nation's happiness it may run back and the ...
... evil and public calamity . Let us not be deluded by the supposition that the alterations are apparently trivial . By taking out a single peg from the wheels of the mighty machinery of a nation's happiness it may run back and the ...
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... evil and regulate the application of them according to the exigency of oc- casions . This course is the most beneficial to mankind . When laws have so operated as to form the manners and character of a people ( which is their true and ...
... evil and regulate the application of them according to the exigency of oc- casions . This course is the most beneficial to mankind . When laws have so operated as to form the manners and character of a people ( which is their true and ...
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