The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1810 |
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Page 265
... laws have not provided for its punish- ment . The wisdom and humanity of this design furnish a just excuse for the multiplicity of capital offences , which the laws of England are accused of creating beyond those of other coun- tries ...
... laws have not provided for its punish- ment . The wisdom and humanity of this design furnish a just excuse for the multiplicity of capital offences , which the laws of England are accused of creating beyond those of other coun- tries ...
Page 269
... laws which long impunity had taught him to contemn . ' This is not the hasty opinion of a speculative reformer , but the sound and unanswerable conclusion of an English judge , than whom no man has ever attained a more comprehensive ...
... laws which long impunity had taught him to contemn . ' This is not the hasty opinion of a speculative reformer , but the sound and unanswerable conclusion of an English judge , than whom no man has ever attained a more comprehensive ...
Page 394
... laws are appealed to as if they were in daily execution . Complain of the very severe punishments which prevail in the army and the navy , and you are told that the offences which are so chastised , would by the municipal law be ...
... laws are appealed to as if they were in daily execution . Complain of the very severe punishments which prevail in the army and the navy , and you are told that the offences which are so chastised , would by the municipal law be ...
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