Essays on the Punishment of DeathSpear, 1844 - 237 páginas |
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... ment , ESSAY VI . - ENCOURAGEMENTS . Extent of the proposed reform - Punishment of Death sustains slavery - Experiment of the Reform - English philanthropists -Mrs . Fry - Experiment_among the heathen - Executions private - Suicide of ...
... ment , ESSAY VI . - ENCOURAGEMENTS . Extent of the proposed reform - Punishment of Death sustains slavery - Experiment of the Reform - English philanthropists -Mrs . Fry - Experiment_among the heathen - Executions private - Suicide of ...
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... fellows , when all the purposes of good govern- ment may be amply secured at so much cheaper a purchase . In no instance can this preposterous sacri- fice be implied . It must be shown by positive 22 SACREDNESS OF HUMAN LIFE .
... fellows , when all the purposes of good govern- ment may be amply secured at so much cheaper a purchase . In no instance can this preposterous sacri- fice be implied . It must be shown by positive 22 SACREDNESS OF HUMAN LIFE .
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... ment throughout the habitable globe . ' For the honor of humanity it can be said , that in every age and country , there have been found persons in whom uncorrupted nature has triumphed over cus- tom and law . Else why do we hear of ...
... ment throughout the habitable globe . ' For the honor of humanity it can be said , that in every age and country , there have been found persons in whom uncorrupted nature has triumphed over cus- tom and law . Else why do we hear of ...
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... ment , is , however , the fruitful source of abundant retributive evil , in its eventual consequences , to those themselves who yield to its indulgence . Thus is it ever , by an eternal and universal moral law which has no less certain ...
... ment , is , however , the fruitful source of abundant retributive evil , in its eventual consequences , to those themselves who yield to its indulgence . Thus is it ever , by an eternal and universal moral law which has no less certain ...
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... ment of persons guilty of this crime — that your petitioners find , by experience , that the infliction of death , or even the probability of the infliction of death , prevents the prosecution , conviction , and punish- ment of the ...
... ment of persons guilty of this crime — that your petitioners find , by experience , that the infliction of death , or even the probability of the infliction of death , prevents the prosecution , conviction , and punish- ment of the ...
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abolished advocates Arson beast benefit of clergy blood Boston Bowdoin College brother Cain capital offences Capital Punishment Christ Christian committed condemned convicted covenant crime criminal earth England ESSAY eyes fact father feel French Revolution friends gallows gibbet give guilty hand hanging hangman heart heaven human hundred imprisonment inflicted innocent Jesus judge jury labor Lamech legislation liberty lives look Lord martial music ment mind moral Moses murder never object Old Bailey penalty persons poor present principle prisoner public executions punishment of death put to death Rantoul reader reform remark revenge ROBERT RANTOUL sacred says scaffold scene SHALT NOT KILL shed sheddeth slave society solemn soul spirit statute stealing suffering suicide SYLVESTER JUDD Thou shalt thought tion treason truth Tuscany unto UPHAM victim violence voice whole wife witness writer
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Página 177 - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
Página 139 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Página 131 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Página 126 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Página 179 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Página 180 - Then came Peter to him, and said ; Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him ? till seven times ? Jesus saith unto him ; I say not unto thee, until seven times, but until seventy times seven.
Página 157 - At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of their increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: and the Levite, * * * and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.
Página 162 - If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Página 139 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Página 148 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity; he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.