 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 halaman
...daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by aŁt of ' parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inflant death. So dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifning, increafes the number of offenders. * -jt... | |
 | 482 halaman
...which men are daily liable to commit, no lcl» than one hundred and fixty have been declared by afts of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be wor- s thy of inftant death. So dreadful « lilt, instead of diminishing, incrcales the number of offenders.... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 852 halaman
...variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs than 160 have been declared by adls of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of inll.uit death.— So 4 • dreadful a6o dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifhing, increafcs the number... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 halaman
...daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by act of parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inftant death. So dreadful a lift, infteadof diminiming, incrcafes the number of offenders. The injured,... | |
 | 1821 - 608 halaman
...actions 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...list, instead of diminishing, increases the number <>f offenders. The injured, through compassion, will forbear to prosecute ; juries, through compassion,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 halaman
...daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament tp be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.' (4 Blackstone, Com. 18.) When we come to enquire into the nature of the crimes of which thjs dreadrul... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 halaman
...commit, no less than a hun" dred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be • " fekmies, without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be " worthy of instant death;" and the catalogue has beean sine. e enlarged I- i . . . -t .- ;-.,;..!,.. The apology for many of those... | |
 | 1811 - 538 halaman
...commit, no leas than one hundred and i\ii/ have been de~ clared, by act of parliament, to be felony without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be •worthy of instant Jeatk." The number of capital punishments has been considerably augmented ,-ince the publication of... | |
 | 1813 - 716 halaman
...commit, not less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament, to be fellonious without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." The same writer observes, that were even a committee appointed but once in an hundred years to revise... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1814 - 426 halaman
...which men " are daily liable to commit, no less than a hun-. " dred and sixty have been declared by act of " Parliament to be felonies, without benefit of " clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of in" stant death ;" and the catalogue has been since enlarged ! The apology for many of those sanguinary... | |
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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... 
