The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence, Volume 4Longman, Rees, 1828 |
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... criminal statesman that ever lived in this country . " In page 61 , Mr. Fox is likened to Petion , and Brissot , because he " studiously confined his horror and reprobation to the massacres of the second of September , but passed over ...
... criminal statesman that ever lived in this country . " In page 61 , Mr. Fox is likened to Petion , and Brissot , because he " studiously confined his horror and reprobation to the massacres of the second of September , but passed over ...
Page 149
... ? To obey punctually , to censure freely . " Thus much is certain ; that a system that is never to be cen- * Vide Dagge's Considerations on Criminal Law , cap . iii . and ii . sured will never be improved ; that if nothing is NOTES . 149.
... ? To obey punctually , to censure freely . " Thus much is certain ; that a system that is never to be cen- * Vide Dagge's Considerations on Criminal Law , cap . iii . and ii . sured will never be improved ; that if nothing is NOTES . 149.
Page 156
... criminal laws , shall be given in the words of Mr. Dagge . " It would be easy to prove , " says he upon the authority of Mon- tesquieu , " that in all , or almost all of the states of Europe the rigour of punishments has diminished or ...
... criminal laws , shall be given in the words of Mr. Dagge . " It would be easy to prove , " says he upon the authority of Mon- tesquieu , " that in all , or almost all of the states of Europe the rigour of punishments has diminished or ...
Page 157
... criminal laws seem rather calcu- lated to keep slaves in awe , than to govern free men . They seem to contradict all notions of justice , and confound all distinctions of morality . By the ignominy they impose in many cases they bend ...
... criminal laws seem rather calcu- lated to keep slaves in awe , than to govern free men . They seem to contradict all notions of justice , and confound all distinctions of morality . By the ignominy they impose in many cases they bend ...
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... considers that property is one great bond of society , and that security under judicious and effectual * Consideration on Criminal Law , vol . i . chap . 7 . laws is perhaps the most precious quality of property itself 158 NOTES .
... considers that property is one great bond of society , and that security under judicious and effectual * Consideration on Criminal Law , vol . i . chap . 7 . laws is perhaps the most precious quality of property itself 158 NOTES .
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Page 225 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 446 - Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter.
Page 427 - In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 226 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood ; and I have given it . to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
Page 448 - The Second Book of Homilies, the several titles whereof we have joined under this Article, doth contain a godly and wholesome Doctrine, and necessary for these times, as doth the former Book of Homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers, diligently and distinctly, that they may be understanded of the people.
Page 456 - Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Page 446 - Then shall the Minister examine whether he repent him truly of his sins, and be in charity with all the world ; exhorting him to forgive, from the bottom of his heart, all persons that have offended him...
Page 169 - ... that reason to be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, 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...
Page 302 - ... enormity of the first, was from the plunder of the Church. In truth, his Grace is somewhat excusable for his dislike to a grant like mine, not only in its quantity, but in its kind, so different from his own. Mine was from a mild and benevolent sovereign : his from Henry the Eighth.
Page 134 - 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.