 | Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1833 - 404 pages
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies, without benefit of...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.* It is an indelible disgrace to an age which boasts ot its being enlightened with the beams of science... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...been declared by act of parliament, " Scott's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, BI c. 56, pp. 475, 476. to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death."* It appears, however, by " an analysis of, and digested index to, the criminal statutes," published... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...any man now than instances of robberies withment (c) to be felonies without benefit of clergy (14) ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death....number of offenders. *The injured, through compassion (15), will often forbear to [ *19 ] prosecute : juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget their... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...in 181 1, " that men are daily liable to commit, no less than two hundred have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy,...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. When we inquire into the nature of the crimes of which this dreadful catalogue is composed, we shall... | |
 | Science - 1830 - 1112 pages
...this town, for offences unattended with bloodshed or violence. Sir William Blackstone declares that " so dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured,'' says he, " through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute ; juries, through compassion, will sometimes... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1840 - 554 pages
...this town, for offences unattended with bloodshed or violence. Sir William Blackstone declares that " so dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured,1' says he, " through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute; juries, through compassion,... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1843 - 296 pages
...actions men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clerg-y...or in other words, to be worthy of instant death." What language can convey to the mind of a modern so striking a picture of the estimate the aristocracy... | |
 | Charles Spear - Capital punishment - 1844 - 266 pages
...sixty capital offences. The Selections from the London Morning Herald say two hundred. See vol. ip 122. of diminishing, increases the number of offenders....juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget (heir oaths, and either acquit the guilty, or mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1845 - 474 pages
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or in other words, to be worthy of instant death." This was written about the year 1760, and in 1809, when Sir Samuel Romilly devoted himself to the arduous... | |
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It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of... 
