Free Thoughts on Despotic and Free Governments: As Connected with the Happiness of the Governor and the GovernedCharles Dilly, 1781 - 316 pages |
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... death for almost every offence , and punishing by fire as well as by the fword . In the time of the Republic , these severe laws were virtually repealed , as it was ordained by the Porcian law , that no citizen fhould be punished with death ...
... death for almost every offence , and punishing by fire as well as by the fword . In the time of the Republic , these severe laws were virtually repealed , as it was ordained by the Porcian law , that no citizen fhould be punished with death ...
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... death . All then must be managed by intrigue , and the judge must be careful to obey the dic- tates , not of reason and justice , but of the defpot and his favorites . In England the judge indeed prefides , but it is the law which ...
... death . All then must be managed by intrigue , and the judge must be careful to obey the dic- tates , not of reason and justice , but of the defpot and his favorites . In England the judge indeed prefides , but it is the law which ...
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... death , only because Ahab hath co- veted his vineyard . He may be accu fed and condemned for treason , that his eftate may escheat to the crown . This has been no uncommon cafe in defpotic F 2 govern- governments . Nay , Englishmen have ...
... death , only because Ahab hath co- veted his vineyard . He may be accu fed and condemned for treason , that his eftate may escheat to the crown . This has been no uncommon cafe in defpotic F 2 govern- governments . Nay , Englishmen have ...
Page 69
... death . Horrid benevolence ! Amazing folly ! When to the innocent it must be infinitely more defireable to die an eafy death , than to be tempted , by the most excruciating torments , to confefs a crime he never committed , to his own ...
... death . Horrid benevolence ! Amazing folly ! When to the innocent it must be infinitely more defireable to die an eafy death , than to be tempted , by the most excruciating torments , to confefs a crime he never committed , to his own ...
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... death . This officer has authority to commit the murderer to prifon , there to be confined until he receives his trial.- This is an excellent inftitution , and con- tributes to the fecurity of fubjects against thofe affaffinations which ...
... death . This officer has authority to commit the murderer to prifon , there to be confined until he receives his trial.- This is an excellent inftitution , and con- tributes to the fecurity of fubjects against thofe affaffinations which ...
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Page 315 - And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth...
Page 316 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 310 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Page 202 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 202 - This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 135 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Page 309 - And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 264 - ... and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Page 308 - And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee ; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Page 309 - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.