 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...  The People's Journal - Page 310edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Dick - 1828 - 478 pages
...will be generally led to conclude, that 'there is no distinction in the guilt. In our own country, it is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety...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... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1832 - 916 pages
...between crimes and punishments. ' It is a melancholy truth,' says Blackstone in his Commentaries, ' 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... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pages
...fact,' says Blackstone, whose testimony on this subject will be regarded of the highest authority, 'that among the variety of actions, which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; in other words,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1832 - 930 pages
...and kept, than laws made with extreme punishments." " It is a melancholy truth," says Blackstone, " that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixly have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies worthy of instant death.... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1833 - 404 pages
...they will be generally led to conclude, that there is no distinction in the guilt. In our own country, it is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety...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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 pages
...inattentively) by a multitude of successive independent statutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parlia(«) Beccar. c. 6. (6) Sp. L. b. 6, c. 16.... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 pages
...be ¿.Ч'Ш-'гаНу led to conclude, that there is nodistinction in the guilt. In our own country, it is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than ohe hundred and *ix!y have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies, without benefit of... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...delivered in the House of Commons in 181 1, " that men are daily liable to commit, no less than two hundred have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. When we inquire into the nature of the crimes of... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 690 pages
...the variety of action^ which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and fix'.y hove been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies, without benefit of clergy ; or, m other words, to be worthy of instant death,* It is an indelible diagrace to an age which boasts... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 pages
...and more like what Lord Bacon calls, the wild justice of revenge. In his time, Blackstone complained that, " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty had been declared, by Act of Parliament, to be felonies deserving of death. The... | |
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