The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen 22A. Constable, 1814 |
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... thing endured , paid , or foregone , in order to obtain the double preventive which the punishment is intend- ed to administer . The gain or profit of the punishment consists in this preventive , or in the tendency of the punishment to ...
... thing endured , paid , or foregone , in order to obtain the double preventive which the punishment is intend- ed to administer . The gain or profit of the punishment consists in this preventive , or in the tendency of the punishment to ...
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... thing must undoubtedly be avoided , which ' would give to a punishment an air of levity or conceit ; but still we may remark , that certain crimes are best punished by ridi- ' cule ; or that , in some cases , as where pride has led to ...
... thing must undoubtedly be avoided , which ' would give to a punishment an air of levity or conceit ; but still we may remark , that certain crimes are best punished by ridi- ' cule ; or that , in some cases , as where pride has led to ...
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... thing beyond the chance of detection was likely to enter , at least in the shape of deliberate reflection . But this is of comparatively little importance ; -it is where he re- fines further on the general principle , that we chiefly ...
... thing beyond the chance of detection was likely to enter , at least in the shape of deliberate reflection . But this is of comparatively little importance ; -it is where he re- fines further on the general principle , that we chiefly ...
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... thing which can seize hold of the imagination , with- out awakening sympathy , should be presented , both in the con- struction of the perpetual prison , and in the situation of its inha- bitants . Mr Dumont happily and eloquently ...
... thing which can seize hold of the imagination , with- out awakening sympathy , should be presented , both in the con- struction of the perpetual prison , and in the situation of its inha- bitants . Mr Dumont happily and eloquently ...
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... thing in the fairest light , he has painted , if the pages of a journal for sixteen years may be said to paint , by far the blackest picture ever yet exhibited of human society . His book is a catalogue of crimes , it would be a record ...
... thing in the fairest light , he has painted , if the pages of a journal for sixteen years may be said to paint , by far the blackest picture ever yet exhibited of human society . His book is a catalogue of crimes , it would be a record ...
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