 | 1830 - 430 pages
...murder. Think not that I urge this in extenuation of my crime. No : I wait for judgment—' An eye for an eye — a tooth for a tooth — a life for a life.' By an earthly tribunal, my doom is fixed— inevitable, but I look for mercy from the Judge above.... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1879 - 388 pages
...you think as they do — your sisters, I mean — that the Mosaic law is still our law — an eye for an eye — a tooth for a tooth — a life for a life — and so on ? " "It was the subject of the sermon ; — namely, whether he who takes a life forfeits... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1859 - 326 pages
...you think as they do — your sisters, I mean — that the Mosaic law is still our law — an eye for an eye — a tooth for a tooth — a life for a life — and so on?" I said I did not quite understand him. " It was the subject of the sermon. Whether... | |
 | Melchior Joseph Eugène Daumas - 1863 - 436 pages
...Government has thought fit to interfere in the matter, he is condemned to suffer like for like, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. When I was consul for France at Mascara, in 1837, accredited to Abd-el-Kader, I had an opportunity... | |
 | Camilla Jenkin - 1865 - 310 pages
...for a cruel murder." "Homicide, not murder," retorted the prisoner. "The old Jewish law, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life, exists no longer in any Christian country; I cannot be condemned for that which I did not intend to... | |
 | 1872 - 438 pages
...another. In such a case, at least, we believe in the strict lex talionis, the doctrine of " an eye for an eye," " a tooth for a tooth," a life for a life, not to exact retribution (for that cannot be), but for the safety of society. Self-preservation is... | |
 | Olive Logan - 1870 - 696 pages
...those days of fierce excitement, of mad desire for blood, are past ! Men quoted Scripture, " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," a life for a life; Shakespeare, too : " Accursed be the air on which ho rides, And damned all those that trust him." There... | |
 | Olive Logan - 1870 - 738 pages
...those days of fierce excitement, of mad desire for blood, are past ! Men quoted Scripture, " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," a life for a life; Shakespeare, too : " Accursed bo the air on which ho rides, And damned all those that trust him." There... | |
 | Olive Logan - 1871 - 658 pages
...those days of fierce excitement, of mad desire for blood, are past ! Men quoted Scripture, " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," a life for a life; Shakespeare, too : " Accursed be the air on which ho rides, And damned all those that trust him." There... | |
 | 1872 - 218 pages
...another. In such a case, at least, we believe in the strict lex tnlionis, the doctrine of "an eye for an eye," "a tooth for a tooth," a "life for a life," not to exact retribution (for that cannot be), but for the safety of society. Self preservation is... | |
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To the same astute and unchanging race, whose relentless code of jurisprudence demanded 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life... 
