...melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies...without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be crimes which incur the penalty of capiial punishment, that is, death." In distinguishing between words...

...melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions -which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies...without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be crimes which incur the penalty of capital punishment, that is, death." In distinguishing bct'.veen...

...truth that among the variety of " actions which men are daily liable " to commit, no less than 160 have " been declared by act of parliament " to be...without benefit of " clergy, or, in other words, to bo " worthy of instant death. So dread" ful a list, instead of diminishing, " increases the number...

...was King, ' 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...felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, worthy of instant death.' The crimes of murder, manslaughter, rape, &c., as well as that of larceny,...

...melancholy truth that among the variety of actions that men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament...felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, worthy of instant death." After the date at which Blackstone wrote, the next event of importance with...

...fame of England during the reigns of the three Georges. "It is a melancholy fact," wrote Blackstone, "that among the variety of actions men are daily liable...sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be worthy of instant death." In the Colony of Massachusetts Bay there were only twentycapital offences,...

...Blackstone says that ' among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit no less than 160 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." " Many of these were particular forms of felony. " However, after making all deductions on these grounds,...

...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; in other words, to be worthy of instant death." He adds that so "dreadful a list, instead of diminishing,...

...1/69, that " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 had been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." The class of offenders usually executed at Tyburn, and the spectacle presented there when executions...

...have builded '"Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clerffy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." — Blackstone, Commentaries, 1765. the...