Hidden fields
Books Books
" All laws against wickedness are ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be hated, and prosecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot... "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 197
1819
Full view - About this book

Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
..., the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be h-ited, and prolecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of punifhing a flight injury with death; efpecially when he remembers, that the thief might have procured...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 pages
...mitigate the penalties for mere violation* of property, information will always be hated, **nd profccution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of punilhing ยป 1 flight injury with death ; efpecially when he remembers, that the thief might have procured...
Full view - About this book

Anthologia Hibernica: Or, Monthly Collections of Science, Belles ..., Volume 4

1794 - 540 pages
...mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be hated, and profecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of puniming a flight injury with death, efpecially when he remembers that the thief might have procured...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be hated, and profecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of punifhing a ffight injury with death ; efpecially when he remembers, that the thief might have procured...
Full view - About this book

Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be hated, and profecution dreaded. The heart of a good man, cannot but recoil at the thought of puniming a flight injury with death ; efpecially when he remembers, that the thief might have procured...
Full view - About this book

The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 3

1801 - 344 pages
...mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always ba hated, and profecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of puniQiing a flight injury with death ; efpccially D 3 when when he remembers that the thief might have...
Full view - About this book

Select British Classics, Volume 7

1803 - 296 pages
...till we m'tigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always behated,and prosecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the TfiE ( thought of punishing a slight injury with death ; especially when he remembers, that the thief...
Full view - About this book

The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 3

1806 - 340 pages
...ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be...which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue. The obligations to assist the exercise of publick justice are indeed strong ; but they will certainly...
Full view - About this book

The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 424 pages
...ineffectual, unless home will inform, and some will prosecute; but till we mitigate the penalties. for mere violations of property, information will always be...which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue. The obligations to assist the exercise of publick: justice are indeed strong ; but they will certainly...
Full view - About this book

The Belfast Monthly Magazine, Volume 7

1811 - 538 pages
...ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be...safety by another crime, from which he was restrained by his remaining virtue. Independently of its inhumanity, of its inutility, and of every other consideration,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF