 I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ; but I don't know that we have any more right to judge them than we have to judge rats and mice, which are just as good as cats and weasels, though we think it necessary to treat them as criminals.  Works - Page 264by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 800 pages
...service, and all the intellectual ones that limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as it' all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must...we think it necessary to treat them as criminals. The limitations of human responsibility have never been properly studied, unless it be by the phrenologists.... | |
 | 1860 - 794 pages
...mankind, was tried for shooting at George the Third ; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty ! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily...we think it necessary to treat them as criminals. The limitations of human responsibility have never been properly studied, unless it be by the phrenologists.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 298 pages
...mankind, was tried for shooting at George the Third; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty ! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily...we think it necessary to treat them as criminals. The limitations of human responsibility have never been properly studied, unless it be by the phrenologists.... | |
 | 1861 - 634 pages
...vile, in the same spirit and for the same reason as we kill weeds or wild beasts, but not otherwise. " I suppose we must punish evil-doers, as we extirpate...we think it necessary to treat them as criminals." (Vol. I. p. 281.) Abner Briggs, Jun., and Silas Peckham are the only persons in the history, so far... | |
 | 1861 - 636 pages
...vile, in the same spirit and for the same reason as we kill weeds or wild beasts, but not otherwise. " I suppose we must punish evil-doers, as we extirpate...we think it necessary to treat them as criminals." (Vol. I. p. 281.) Abner Briggs, Jun., and Silas Peckham are the only persons in the history, so far... | |
 | 1861 - 634 pages
...vile, in the same spirit and for the same reason as we kill weeds or wild beasts, but not otherwise. " I suppose we must punish evil-doers, as we extirpate...know that we have any more right to judge them than \ve have to judge rats and mice, which are just as good as cats and weasels, though we think it necessary... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...ways with open ear you find the life which is in them is restless and nervous as that of a woman." " I suppose we must punish evildoers as we extirpate...to judge them than we have to judge rats and mice." " Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders, but a human heart beats... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...ways with open ear you find the life which is in them is restless and nervous as that of a woman." " I suppose we must punish evildoers as we extirpate...to judge them than we have to judge rats and mice." " Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders, but a human heart beats... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 544 pages
...mankind, was tried for shooting at George the Third; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty ! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily...we think it necessary to treat them as criminals. The limitations of human responsibility have never been properly studied, unless it be by the phrenologists.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 552 pages
...mankind, was tried for shooting at George the Third; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily...we think it necessary to treat them as criminals. The limitations of human responsibility have never been properly studied, unless it be by the phrenologists.... | |
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