...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,...

...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...

...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...

...among. the variety of actions wkich 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 instant death." Yet, like the supposed severities of divine law,...

...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 instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases...

...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...parliament " to be felonies without benefit of " clergy, or, in other words, to be " worthy of instant death. So dread" ful a list, instead of diminishing,...

...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...commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of par" liament to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other " words, to be worthy of instant...

...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;...

...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...

...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...