 If any child or children above sixteen years old and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite their natural father or mother, he or they shall be put to death ; unless it can be sufficiently testified that the parents have been very unchristianly...  A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions - Page 68by Frederick Marryat - 1839 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1831 - 566 pages
...sixteen years old and of competent understanding, shall curse or smite their natural father or mother, he or they shall be put to death, unless it can be sufficiently testified, that the parents have been very unchristian!)' negligent in the education of such children, or so provoked them by extreme and cruel... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1836 - 598 pages
...or they shall bee put to death; unless it can bee sufficiently testified (hat the parents have beene very unchristianly negligent in the education of such...provoke them by extreme and cruell correction that they have beene forced iherennlo to preserve themselves from death, maiming. Exo. 21. 17. — Levit. 20.... | |
 | New Plymouth Colony - 1836 - 382 pages
...Cureine or smitcompetent Understanding, shall Curse or Smite their Natural Father mother" or Mother ; he or they shall be put to Death, unless it can be sufficiently testi6ed that the Parents have been very Unchristianly negligent in the Education of such Children,... | |
 | Royal Ralph Hinman - 1838 - 348 pages
...such child shall be put to death. Exod.21 : 17. Levit. 20 : 9. Exod. 21 : 15. wnlesse it be proved, that the Parents have been very unchristianly negligent in the education of such child or children, or so provoked them, by extream and cruell correction or usage, that they have been... | |
 | George Combe - 1841 - 438 pages
...sixteen years old, and of sufficient understanding,' shall curse or smite their natural father, he or they shall be put to death, unless it can be sufficiently...unchristianly negligent in the education of such children." This enactment was obviously dictated by the Mosaic law, which declares the acts of cursing and smiting... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1841 - 590 pages
...or they shall bee put to death; unless it can bee sufficiently testified that the parents have beene very unchristianly negligent in the education of such...provoke them by extreme and cruell correction that they have beene forced thereunto to preserve themselves from death, maiming. Exo. 21. 17.—Levit. 20.—Ex.... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1846 - 378 pages
...16 years old. and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite his natural father or mother, he shall be PUT TO DEATH, UNLESS it can be sufficiently...UNCHRISTIANLY NEGLIGENT IN THE EDUCATION OF SUCH CHILDREN." This was the Mosaic Law, but with an important and characteristic qualification. NASHUA, NASHVILLE,... | |
 | Lewis Glover Pray - 1847 - 288 pages
...years old, and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite their natural father or mother, he or they shall be put to death, unless it can be sufficiently testified that the parents have been unchristianly negligent in the education of their children." As another indication of the same intense... | |
 | Connecticut - 1850 - 136 pages
...or they shall bee put to death; unless it can bee sufficiently testified that the parents have bcene very unchristianly negligent in the education of such...provoke them by extreme and cruell correction that they have becne forced thereunto to preserve themselves from death, maiming. — Exo. 21. 17.— Levit.... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 pages
...their natural father, he or they shall be put to death." But this humane qualification was added : " unless it can be sufficiently testified, that the...unchristianly negligent in the education of such children." The modern legislators of the Commonwealth, says Mr Combe, " have wisely repealed this and many other... | |
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