The Punishment of Death: A Selection of Articles from the Morning Herald, with Notes, 第 2 卷Hatchard-Smith, Elder, 1837 |
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第 330 頁 - demanded or taken) shall, upon proof of the identity of the person ' of the offender, be sufficient evidence of the first conviction, without ' proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing ' to have signed the same.
第 38 頁 - they were almost naked; and perhaps " she might have done something wrong, for she scarcely knew what " she did.'' The parish officers testified to the truth of this story ; but ' it seems there had been a good deal of shoplifting about Ludgate. ' An example was thought necessary (by the Judges), and this woman
第 126 頁 - the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to ' pick the pocket, and to pierce the heart, is equally criminal, will ' scarcely believe that two malefactors, so different in guilt, can be ' justly doomed to the same punishment; nor is the necessity of
第 269 頁 - Slaves cannot breathe in England—if their lungs " Receive our air, that moment they are free— " They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
第 126 頁 - has conversed very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of ' reproach or contempt this compassion may incur from those who ' confound cruelty with firmness, I know not whether any wise man ' would wish it less powerful or less extensive. ' The frequency of capital punishments
第 126 頁 - reserved as the last resort of authority, as the ' strongest and most operative of prohibitory sanctions, and placed ' before the treasure of life, to guard from invasion what cannot be ' restored. To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to ' robbery—to confound in common minds the gradations of
第 240 頁 - in the precincts of • that city. It is remarkable that the manners, principles, and religion ' of the inhabitants of Tuscany and Rome are exactly the same. The • abolition of death alone as a punishment for murder produced this ' difference in the moral character of the two nations.
第 141 頁 - attempt to relieve his wants, or supply his vices; and if, unex' pectedly, the hand of Justice overtakes him, he deems himself ' peculiarly unfortunate in falling at last a sacrifice to those laws which ' long impunity had taught him to contemn.*
第 127 頁 - obvious that it is absurd, and of ill consequence to the ' commonwealth, that a thief and a murderer should be equally ' punished; for if a robber sees that his danger is the same if he is ' convicted of theft as if he were guilty of murder, this will naturally ' incite him to kill the person whom otherwise he would
第 112 頁 - To the Right Honourable The Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled: The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of London and its vicinity,