 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 778 pages
...ignorance or Iindolence, he will not attempt to cure. It has been therefore ingenious!}' proposed,^) that in every state a scale of crimes should be formed,...punishments, descending from the greatest to the least; bui, if that Бе too romantic an idea, yet at least a wise legislator will mark the principal divisions... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 658 pages
...ignorance or indolence he will not attempt to cure. It has been therefore ingeniously proposed, (2) that in every state a scale of crimes should be formed,...the least; but, if that be too romantic an idea yet a least wise legislator will mark the principal divisions, and not assign penalties of the first degree... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - Law - 1883 - 734 pages
...too romantic au («) Bccoar. c. 6. r 2 HOOK VI.— OF CRIMES. [idea, yet at least a wise legislature will mark the principal divisions, and not assign...of an inferior rank. Where men see no distinction in the nature and gradations of punishment, the generality will be led to conclude there is no distinction... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...he will not attempt to cure. Scale of Punishments Necessary. It has been ingeniously proposed, that a scale of crimes should be formed, with a corresponding...punishments, descending from the greatest to the least. In any event, a wise legislator will mark the principal divisions, and not assign penalties of the... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1908 - 772 pages
...ignorance or L indolence, lie will not attempt to cure. It has beeu therefore ingeniously proposed,^) that in every state a scale of crimes should be formed,...assign penalties of the first degree to offences of an interior rank. Where men see no distinction made in the nature and gradations of punishment, the generality... | |
 | William Blackstone - English law - 1916 - 1380 pages
...through ignorance or indolence he will not attempt to cure. It has been therefore ingeniously proposed ' that in every state a scale of crimes should be formed, with a eorresponding seale of punishments, deseending from the greatest to the least : but, if that be too... | |
 | Richard A. Posner - Law - 1983 - 436 pages
...actual laws of England (and other countries): It has been . . . ingeniously proposed [by Beccaria], that in every state a scale of crimes should be formed,...that be too romantic an idea, yet at least a wise legislature will mark the principal divisions, and not assign penalties of the first degree to offences... | |
 | William S. Laufer, Freda Adler - Social Science - 212 pages
...calculations could be applied to the obscure and infinite combination of human actions, there might be a corresponding scale of punishments, descending from the greatest to the least" (p. 30). Sellin and Wolfgang did precisely that in 1964. In their own words: "By means of scaling we... | |
 | David Simpson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 308 pages
...iKpfiil about a mW& seals ef erre ino «pending pimMr ments: "But, if that be too romantic an idea, at least a wise legislator will mark the principal...the first degree to offences of an inferior rank." 13 In other words, the judge must live by his professional wits. All "pleas and excuses" are to be... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 pages
...calculation could be applied to the obscure and infinite combinations of human actions, there might be a corresponding scale of punishments, descending from the greatest to the least; but it will be sufficient that the wise legislator mark the principal divisions, without disturbing the... | |
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If mathematical calculation could be applied to the obscure and infinite combinations of human actions, there might be a corresponding scale of punishments, descending from the greatest to the least: but it will be sufficient that the wise legislator... 
