Observations on Penal Jurisprudence and the Reformation of Criminals: With an Appendix, Containing the Latest Reports of the State-prisons Or Penitentiaries of Philadelphia, New-York, and Massachusetts, and Other DocumentsT. Cadell and W. Davies and J. and A. Arch, 1819 - 323 من الصفحات |
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... instances restored to the full exercise of their powers . Almost all writers have considered crime merely with relation to punishment , and their chief difficulty has been to apportion the latter to the former ; but surely , a mere ...
... instances restored to the full exercise of their powers . Almost all writers have considered crime merely with relation to punishment , and their chief difficulty has been to apportion the latter to the former ; but surely , a mere ...
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... instance the story , so often repeated , and so much relied on , that when a man convicted at Hertford Assizes of horse - stealing , complained , that it was cruel to hang him for only stealing a horse , the judge told him , that he was ...
... instance the story , so often repeated , and so much relied on , that when a man convicted at Hertford Assizes of horse - stealing , complained , that it was cruel to hang him for only stealing a horse , the judge told him , that he was ...
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... possession , and the jury again returned a verdict of not guilty . ” — The records of our Courts of Justice abound with similar instances . : brave the ministers of law on the seat of justice 48 ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH .
... possession , and the jury again returned a verdict of not guilty . ” — The records of our Courts of Justice abound with similar instances . : brave the ministers of law on the seat of justice 48 ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH .
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... instance of this occurs in the case of a person , who being convicted of a capital offence was pardoned , on condi- tion of being transported to New South Wales ; where by his regularity and industry , he has established himself in a ...
... instance of this occurs in the case of a person , who being convicted of a capital offence was pardoned , on condi- tion of being transported to New South Wales ; where by his regularity and industry , he has established himself in a ...
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... instance , when request was made to them to give up bedsteads for the use of the sick at the hospital , they cheer- fully ... instances of which are innumerable . So true it is , that Virtuous and vicious every man must be , Few in th ...
... instance , when request was made to them to give up bedsteads for the use of the sick at the hospital , they cheer- fully ... instances of which are innumerable . So true it is , that Virtuous and vicious every man must be , Few in th ...
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الصفحة 140 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
الصفحة 57 - Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone, Or never feel the rage, or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be, Few in th...
الصفحة 179 - Therefore, do unto all men as ye would they should do unto you : for this is the law and the prophets" Thirdly, Beware of all ostentation of virtue, goodness, or piety.
الصفحة 77 - The subject here presented is one of the most important that can engage the attention of the profession. The volume should be generally read, as the subject-matter is of great importance to society.
الصفحة 42 - It is a kind of quackery in government, and argues a want of solid skill, to apply the same universal remedy, the ultimum supplicium, to every case of difficulty. It is, it must be owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind; yet that magistrate must be esteemed both a weak and a cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb, which, through ignorance or indolence, he will not attempt to cure.
الصفحة 130 - For this cause also thank we GOD without ceasing, because when ye received the Word of GOD, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of man, but as it is in truth, the Word of GOD, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
الصفحة 120 - States do not transport convicts; but men are put to labor in the rasp-houses, and women to proper work in the spin-houses — upon this professed maxim, 'MAKE THEM DILIGENT AND THEY WILL BE HONEST.' Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction, and reform their manners, for their own and the public good ; and I am well informed that many come out sober and honest.
الصفحة 41 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
الصفحة 58 - His hand is against every man; and every man's hand is against him.
الصفحة 24 - In moderate governments, the love of one's country, shame, and the fear of blame are restraining motives, capable of preventing a multitude of crimes.