The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of DeathLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 315 страница |
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... laws so plainly evinced , so clearly stated , or so generally allowed , but that the pious , the tender , and the just , will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their private judgment cannot approve . He who ...
... laws so plainly evinced , so clearly stated , or so generally allowed , but that the pious , the tender , and the just , will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their private judgment cannot approve . He who ...
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... law , when the reasons have ceased upon which those rules were founded ; from not repealing such of the old penal laws as are either obsolete or absurd ; and from too little care and attention in framing and passing new ones . The ...
... law , when the reasons have ceased upon which those rules were founded ; from not repealing such of the old penal laws as are either obsolete or absurd ; and from too little care and attention in framing and passing new ones . The ...
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... laws are to be established , which may affect the property , the liberty , and perhaps even the lives , of thou ... law , it could not have continued to this hour a felony without benefit of clergy , to be seen for one month in the ...
... laws are to be established , which may affect the property , the liberty , and perhaps even the lives , of thou ... law , it could not have continued to this hour a felony without benefit of clergy , to be seen for one month in the ...
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... laws of nature would be vain and fruitless , if none were empowered to put them in execution ; and if that power is ... laws of the country , but against the divine laws of nature , and become liable thereby to forfeit their lives for ...
... laws of nature would be vain and fruitless , if none were empowered to put them in execution ; and if that power is ... laws of the country , but against the divine laws of nature , and become liable thereby to forfeit their lives for ...
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... law only , and not against the law of nature ; since no individual has naturally a power of inflicting death upon ... laws for the regulation of the Jewish republic ; as in the case of the crime against nature . But they are sometimes ...
... law only , and not against the law of nature ; since no individual has naturally a power of inflicting death upon ... laws for the regulation of the Jewish republic ; as in the case of the crime against nature . But they are sometimes ...
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