 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1811 - 444 páginas
...depending in parliament, was decided ; and bis only object in publishing it is, that it may be useful. A HERE is probably no other country in the world in...of death has not been executed on more than a sixth fiart of all the persons on whom it has been pronounced ; even taking into the calculation crimes the... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1811 - 444 páginas
...depending- in parliament, was decided; and his only object in publishing it is, that it may be useful. JL HERE is probably no other country in the world in...so many and so great a variety of human actions are punisha-* ble with loss of life as in England. These sanguinaiy statutes, however, are not carried... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1811 - 440 páginas
...was decided ; and his only object in publishing it is, that it may be useful. A HERE is probably.no other country in the world in which so many and so great a variety ol human actions are punishable with loss of life as in England. These sanguinary statutes, however,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - 494 páginas
...good, my learned friend has fallen. This pamphlet opens with a declaration, that, " There is pro" bably no other country in the world in which so many, and...are punishable with loss of life " as in England." The consequence to be deduced from this is not, however, that the laws themselves are severe ; for... | |
 | 1826 - 1068 páginas
...the amount of forty-shillings 1 He used these words, which no person could contradict, that, " there is, probably, no other country in the world in which...actions are punishable with loss of life as in England." And Sir Robert Peel, even since his own superficial and delusive reform of the criminal laws, admitted,... | |
 | 1832 - 508 páginas
...forty-shillings ? He nsed these words, which no person could contradict, that, " there is, prohahly, no other country in the world in which so many and so great a variety of human actions are punishahle with loss of life as in England." And Sir Rohert Peel, even since his own superficial and... | |
 | 1832 - 424 páginas
...we have referred, delivered in the House of Commons in 1810, he remarks, that there is probably no country in the world, in which so many and so great a variety of actions are punishable with loss of life as in England ; while at the same time these sanguinary statutes... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1832 - 420 páginas
...we have referred, delivered in the House of Commons in 1810, he remarks, that there is probably no country in the world, in which so many and so great a variety of actions are punishable with loss of life as in England; while at the same time these sanguinary statutes... | |
 | 1845 - 480 páginas
...quote the words of Sir Samuel Romilly, — "There is, probably, no other country in the world in which so great a variety of human actions are punishable with loss of life as in England." That distinguished ornament of the bar, Sir William Meredith, was also opposed to capital punishment;... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1887 - 718 páginas
...session, and became law. At the time Sir Samuel Romilly entered Parliament there was probably no nation in the world in which so many and so great a variety of human actions were punishable with death as in England. No less than three hundred crimes, of various degrees of... | |
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HERE is probably no other country in the world in which so many and so great a variety of human actions are punishable with loss of life as in England. 
