 | Thomas Dick - 1833 - 404 trang
...they will be generally led to conclude, that there is no distinction in the guilt. In our own country, it is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety...of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies, without benefit... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 trang
...is emphatically true in reference to the criminal code. In 1765, Sir William Blackstone remarked, " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily most liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 trang
...found therein ; inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. It is...of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parlia(«) Beccar. c. 6. (6) Sp. L. b.... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 trang
...be ¿.Ч'Ш-'гаНу led to conclude, that there is nodistinction in the guilt. In our own country, it is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety...of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than ohe hundred and *ix!y have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies, without benefit... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 trang
...and more like what Lord Bacon calls, the wild justice of revenge. In his time, Blackstone complained that, " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty had been declared, by Act of Parliament, to be felonies deserving of... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 466 trang
...Christian Life, etc.," Sermon XL. " It is a melancholy truth," says Blackstone, in his Commentaries, " that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit... | |
 | 1846 - 590 trang
...crime whatever. Duriug the reign of sanguinary law in England, as Blackstone very correctly observes, "It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety...of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred aud sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1847 - 440 trang
...Chrutian Life, etc.," Sermon XI.. " It is a melancholy truth," says Blackstone, in his Commentaries, " that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit... | |
 | John Saunders - 1848 - 434 trang
...flourished. Under the Emperors, severe punishments were revived, and then the Empire fell. * * • It is a melancholy truth that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy.* So... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1848 - 284 trang
...harshnesses and follies arise, in the first instance, from its violation. "When Blackstone wrote, " among the •variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty had been declared, by Act of Parliament, to be felonies, without benefit... | |
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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... 
