| 1804 - 474 pages
...the punishment due to the first. The countries aud time s most notorious for severity of punishments were always those in which the most bloody and inhuman...actions and the most atrocious crimes were committed ; for the hand of the legislator and the assassin were directed by the same spirit of ferocity which,... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 pages
...the punishment due to the first. The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishments, were always those in which the most bloody and inhuman...actions and the most atrocious crimes were committed; for the hand of the legislator and the assassin were direeled by the same spirit of ferocity ; which... | |
| Cesare marchese di Beccaria - 1819 - 248 pages
...the punishment due to the first. The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishments were always those in which the most bloody and inhuman...actions and the most atrocious crimes were committed ; for the hand of the legislator and the assassin were directed by the same spirit of ferocity, which... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1836 - 470 pages
...the punishment due to the first. The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishments, were always those, in which the most bloody and inhuman...actions, and the most atrocious crimes were committed ; for the hand of the legislator and the assassin were directed by the same spirit of ferocity ; which,... | |
| 1847 - 608 pages
...sustain the remark of Beccaria : ' The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishments were always those in which the most bloody and inhuman...actions, and the most atrocious crimes, were committed.' The principle, indeed, that merciful laws afford more protection to society than severe, has the authority... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1843 - 334 pages
...connection with wisdom. first. The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishments, were also those in which the. most bloody and inhuman actions, and the most atrocious crimes were committed ; for the hand of the legislature and the assassin were directed by the same spirit of ferocity ; which,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 548 pages
...sustain the remark of Beccaria : — " The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishments were always those in which the most bloody and inhuman...actions, and the most atrocious crimes, were committed." The principle, indeed, that merciful laws afford more protection to society than severe, has the authority... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 546 pages
...sustain the remark of Beccaria : — " The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishments were always those in which the most bloody and inhuman...actions, and the most atrocious crimes, were committed." The principle, indeed, that merciful laws afford more protection to society than severe, has the authority... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 pages
...sustain the remark of Beccaria : — " The countries and times most notorious for severity of punishments were always those in which the most bloody and inhuman...actions, and the most atrocious crimes, were committed." The principle, indeed, that merciful laws afford more protection to society than severe, has the authority... | |
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