 They ought rather to reflect, that he who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country ; whilst he suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 90edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Frank Sumner Rice - 1894 - 1062 pages
...than that one innocent man should suffer.' 2 Hale, PC chap. 39. Paley controverts the maxim, and urges that ' he who falls by a mistaken sentence may be considered as falling for his country, while he suffers under the operation of those rules by the general effect and tendency of which the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...of danger, or by the mere possibility of confounding the innocent with the guilty. They ought rather to reflect, that he who falls by a mistaken sentence,...which the welfare of the community is maintained and upholden. (From Moral and Political Philosophy.) ST. PAUL HERE then we have a man of liberal attainments,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...of danger, or by the mere possibility of confounding the innocent with the guilty. They ought rather to reflect, that he who falls by a mistaken sentence,...which the welfare of the community is maintained and upholden. (From Moral and Political Philosophy.) ST. PAUL HERE then we have a man of liberal attainments,... | |
 | Arthur Percival Will - 1896 - 580 pages
...persons should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer.2 Paley controverts the maxim, and urges that "he who falls by a mistaken sentence may be considered as falling for his country, while he suffers under the operation of those rules by the general effect and tendency of which the... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1897 - 290 pages
...cases, murderers are not the worst of criminals. Often the fatal blow is struck in some moment 1 "Ha who falls by a mistaken sentence may be considered as falling for his country " ("Moral and Political Philosophy," oh. ii). of passion, or is the outcome of passion, and is not... | |
 | Arthur May Mowry - 1902 - 338 pages
...the help of lawyers. If one was unjustly executed, as would sometimes happen, his friends were told that " he who falls by a mistaken sentence may be considered as falling for his country." Though the laws were not always wholly carried out, they were not repealed. Judges considered that... | |
 | William Murison - 1910 - 416 pages
...of danger, or by the mere possibility of confounding the innocent with the guilty. They ought rather to reflect that he who falls by a mistaken sentence,...general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the country is maintained and upholden. PALEY. 2. Take the case of War — by far the most prolific and... | |
 | Coleman Phillipson - 1923 - 376 pages
...the death penalty. ROMILLY. The validity of the assumption has by no means been established. PALEY. He who falls by a mistaken sentence may be considered...which the welfare of the community is maintained. ROMILLY. Nothing is more easy than thus to philosophise and act the patriot for others, and to arm... | |
 | Nova Scotia. Supreme Court, James Thomson, Alexander James, Fitzgerald Cochran, Henry Oldright, John Morris Geldert, James Macdonald Oxley, Benjamin Russell, Samuel Ainsley Chesley, Frank W. Russell, William Bernard Wallace, LaMert S. Whinyard - 1873 - 358 pages
...acconntability." Again, in a warning voice, he reminds UK that Ri,roilly condemned the execrable maxim of Pnley, " that he who falls by a mistaken sentence may be considered as* falling for bis country, while be suffers under the operation of those rules by the general effect and tendency... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1937 - 840 pages
...convict and hang an innocent man was a very small affair to the sufferer. Chief Justice Gibson says, "He who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country; while he suffers under the operation of those rules by the general effect and tendency of which the... | |
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