 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1863 - 540 страница
...the act. On the first point Blackstone, writing in the CHAP. II. middle of the century, observes : " 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 par" liament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1863 - 654 страница
...crime whatever. During the reign of sanguinary law in England, as Blackstone very correctly observes, " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...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;... | |
 | 1864 - 554 страница
...has become the most humane and the most merciful. " It is a melancholy truth," observes Blackstone, " 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... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - 1864 - 950 страница
...from a humane axiom of the common law, invented to mitigate the horrors of a bloody code, by which among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty were declared to be worthy of instant death.1 Under such a code, it is no wonder... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 страница
...punishment to be found therein, inflicted (perhaps inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes upon crimes very different in their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that among tho variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have... | |
 | William Elder - 1871 - 404 страница
...institutions of the most advanced of the nations. * Blackstone, Commentaries, Book iv., chap. 1, says: "It is a melancholy truth that among the variety of...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and cixry have been declared by act of Parliament to be worthy of instant dtath." This book... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1872 - 324 страница
...man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." — Luke xii: 15. (b) " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...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... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1873 - 396 страница
...man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which ho possesseth." — Luke xii: 15. (b) "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 v-ithout benefit of clergy... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - 1874 - 472 страница
...place. Cosm-orama, s. See ORAMA, p. 24. Crime, j. from ielnun, krima, a transgression of the law. " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...-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 other... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - 1874 - 470 страница
...place. Cosm-orama, s. Sec OHAMA, p. 24. Crime, s. from irpi/ui, krima, a transgression of the law. " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...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 other... | |
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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... 
