 | Henry Fielding - Social Science - 1988 - 466 pages
...how often rigorous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which there is no repentance, has conversed very litde with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compassion may incur from those... | |
 | English essays - 1770 - 742 pages
...forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that ft«e in which there is no repentance, has converted very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compaflion may incur from thole who confound cruelty with firmnefs, I know not whether any wife man... | |
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He who knows not how often rigorous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which there is no repentance, has conversed very little with mankind. 
