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Página 305
The minister , who causes the detention of a citizen , without the warrant of the
law , commits the same crime . His office of minister is distinct from this act , and
does not change the nature of it . For , I repeat , this office not endowing him with
the ...
The minister , who causes the detention of a citizen , without the warrant of the
law , commits the same crime . His office of minister is distinct from this act , and
does not change the nature of it . For , I repeat , this office not endowing him with
the ...
Página 310
But in a well - constituted government , there is a remedy to this uncertainty ,
which not only repairs the mistakes of individual judgment , but which secures
men from the fatal consequences of these errors , when involving no crime .
But in a well - constituted government , there is a remedy to this uncertainty ,
which not only repairs the mistakes of individual judgment , but which secures
men from the fatal consequences of these errors , when involving no crime .
Página 358
... large supply to the perversion of penal justice , by the infliction of slavery as the
punishment of almost every real crime ... punishment of pretended crimes ,
especially of witchcraft , imputed for the very purpose of enslaving the party
accused ...
... large supply to the perversion of penal justice , by the infliction of slavery as the
punishment of almost every real crime ... punishment of pretended crimes ,
especially of witchcraft , imputed for the very purpose of enslaving the party
accused ...
Página 389
Artus , Barbot , Bosman , Loyer , Nyendael , & c . inform us , that in their time all
crimes were punished by mulcts and fines ; but ... Not only murder , theft , and
adultery , are punished by selling the cri . minal for a Slave , but every trifling
crime is ...
Artus , Barbot , Bosman , Loyer , Nyendael , & c . inform us , that in their time all
crimes were punished by mulcts and fines ; but ... Not only murder , theft , and
adultery , are punished by selling the cri . minal for a Slave , but every trifling
crime is ...
Página 530
Since poverty is punished among us as a crime , it ought to be treated with the
same lenity as other crimes ; the offender ought not to languish at the will of him
whom he has offended , but to be allowed some appeal to the justice of his
country .
Since poverty is punished among us as a crime , it ought to be treated with the
same lenity as other crimes ; the offender ought not to languish at the will of him
whom he has offended , but to be allowed some appeal to the justice of his
country .
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Página 96 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Página 545 - In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to practise on others the arts which are practised on himself ; and gains the kindness of his associates by similitude of manners.
Página 396 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family...
Página 523 - They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty hath no fence against superior cunning...
Página 536 - There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts. One is, that every man is presumed solvent. A presumption, in innumerable cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment.
Página 541 - ... the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain what belongs to others.
Página 397 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn.
Página 352 - An account of the proceedings of the British and other Protestant inhabitants of the province of Quebeck, in North America, in order to obtain an House of Assembly in that province.
Página 538 - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own. He will receive, not by...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Pamphleteer, Volumen 5 |
| Editor | Abraham John Valpy |
| Editor | A. J. Valpy., 1815 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 23 Jun 2007 |
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