The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1813 - Capital punishment |
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... honourable and learned friend : but I will immedi- ately cause inquiry to be made , and will take the earliest op- portunity to communicate to the house all the information which I am able to obtain . I , however , am much mistaken if a ...
... honourable and learned friend : but I will immedi- ately cause inquiry to be made , and will take the earliest op- portunity to communicate to the house all the information which I am able to obtain . I , however , am much mistaken if a ...
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... honourable and learned friend alludes , I con- sider the country much indebted to his exertions for the agita- tion of the present inquiry : an inquiry which , differing as I may in the conclusions at which my honourable friend has ...
... honourable and learned friend alludes , I con- sider the country much indebted to his exertions for the agita- tion of the present inquiry : an inquiry which , differing as I may in the conclusions at which my honourable friend has ...
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... honourable friend appears to me to be this night misled . My honourable friend has stated , as a recommendation of further alterations in the criminal law , that good effects have resulted from the change adopted by the legislature by a ...
... honourable friend appears to me to be this night misled . My honourable friend has stated , as a recommendation of further alterations in the criminal law , that good effects have resulted from the change adopted by the legislature by a ...
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... honourable and learned friend . If the number of offences have not increased , may they not , from the consciousness that the present punish- ment is regarded almost as impunity , be committed with more audacity ? To this conclusion the ...
... honourable and learned friend . If the number of offences have not increased , may they not , from the consciousness that the present punish- ment is regarded almost as impunity , be committed with more audacity ? To this conclusion the ...
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... friend . I distinctly stated , in which my honourable and learned friend seems to concur , that the inference with respect to the increase of prosecu- tions was , to say the least , equivocal : and I thought that I had explained myself ...
... friend . I distinctly stated , in which my honourable and learned friend seems to concur , that the inference with respect to the increase of prosecu- tions was , to say the least , equivocal : and I thought that I had explained myself ...
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