 | 1850
...will be generally led to conclude, that there is no distinction in the guilt. In our own country, ii is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of...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 of... | |
 | Michael Angelo Garvey - 1852 - 312 страница
...tremendous severity of our ancient penal code is well expressed in one sentence by lilackstone, who says, that " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable' to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty were felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, worthy of instant... | |
 | George Washington Quinby - 1856 - 326 страница
...years ago England punished one hundred and sixty offenses with death. Dr. Dick says: "In our country it is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...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 of clergy,... | |
 | George Washington Quinby - 1856 - 326 страница
...years ago England punished one hundred and sixty offenses with death. Dr. Dick says : " In our country it is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lesa than one hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of Parliament, to be felonies without benefit... | |
 | G.W. Quinby - 1856
...England punished one hundred and sixty offenses with death. Dr. Dick says: "In our country it is 3 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 of clergy,... | |
 | Charles Frederic Hudson - 1857 - 472 страница
...century. Such was then the character of this code that the complaint of Blackstone was still just : " It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety...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... | |
 | Charles Frederic Hudson - 1859 - 472 страница
...century. Such was then the character of this code that the complaint of Blackstone was still just: "It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by net of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of elergy... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860
...punishment to be found therein, inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes upon crimes very different in their natures....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;... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860
...punishment to he found therein, inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes upon crimes very different in their natures....truth, that among the variety of actions which men arc daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament^)... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863
...capital punishment, which disgraced the English law at the time he wrote. He says (vol. iv. p. 18), " It is a melancholy " truth that among the variety...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, or, in... | |
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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... 
