The Eclectic Review, Volume 11; Volume 29Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood C. Taylor, 1819 |
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... push further the system of severity . The relaxation of the laws has accordingly almost kept pace with the multiplication of offences . Punishment has become VOL . XI . N. S. B more uncertain , in proportion as the laws have grown.
... push further the system of severity . The relaxation of the laws has accordingly almost kept pace with the multiplication of offences . Punishment has become VOL . XI . N. S. B more uncertain , in proportion as the laws have grown.
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... become the rule . Nor does there exist any disapprobation of this systematic lenity . Among all the expedients ... becomes the indispensable duty of the great 6 ་ * Sir Samuel Romilly stated before the House of Commons , that out of 1872 ...
... become the rule . Nor does there exist any disapprobation of this systematic lenity . Among all the expedients ... becomes the indispensable duty of the great 6 ་ * Sir Samuel Romilly stated before the House of Commons , that out of 1872 ...
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... becomes efficient as a preventive of crime , chiefly as it con- tributes to render crime itself infamous , by striking in with the secret decision of conscience , and proclaiming before the world what the offender himself dreads to hear ...
... becomes efficient as a preventive of crime , chiefly as it con- tributes to render crime itself infamous , by striking in with the secret decision of conscience , and proclaiming before the world what the offender himself dreads to hear ...
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... those horrible re - echoes to his own conscience , which he was in his last moments doomed to hear in the voices of his fellow creatures . But the ignominy of any mode of punishment becomes lessened 10 On Capital Punishments .
... those horrible re - echoes to his own conscience , which he was in his last moments doomed to hear in the voices of his fellow creatures . But the ignominy of any mode of punishment becomes lessened 10 On Capital Punishments .
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... becomes lessened , when , instead of being reserved as the mark of the last degree of atrocity , it is indiscriminately inflicted on culprits for whom the predominant feeling is that of indignant commiseration , arising from their being ...
... becomes lessened , when , instead of being reserved as the mark of the last degree of atrocity , it is indiscriminately inflicted on culprits for whom the predominant feeling is that of indignant commiseration , arising from their being ...
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Page 446 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 450 - The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.
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