 ... offences against which the punishment of death was denounced, upon twenty of which only that punishment was ever inflicted — that we were savage in our threats, and yet were feeble in our execution of punishments — that we cherished a system which...  The Parliamentary Debates - Page 393by Great Britain. Parliament - 1824Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1824 - 856 pages
...inflicting capital penalties, on our statute-book, and yet never acted upon more than 20 of them — that we were savage in our threats, and yet were feeble...cases of high treason we involved innocent children in all the consequences of their fathers' guilt — that in cases of corruption of blood, we were even... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 490 pages
...foreigner form of us when he found that in our criminal law there were two hundred criminal offences against which the punishment of death was denounced,...odious, but which was impotent in practice from its very severity — that in cases of high treason, we involved innocent children in all the consequences... | |
 | 1833 - 490 pages
...foreigner form of us when he found that in our criminal law there were two hundred criminal offences against which the punishment of death was denounced,...odious, but which was impotent in practice from its very severity — that in cases of high treason, we involved innocent children in all the consequences... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 492 pages
...foreigner form of us when he found that in our criminal law there were two hundred criminal offences against which the punishment of death was denounced,...cherished a system which in theory was odious, but which wasimpotent in practice from its very severity — that in cases of high treason, we involved innocent... | |
 | 1833 - 646 pages
...foreigner form of us when he found that in our criminal law there were two hundred criminal offences against which the punishment of death was denounced,...upon twenty of which only that punishment was ever inflicted—that we were savage in our threats, and yet were feeble in our execution of punishments—that... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...a humane foreigner form of us, when he found that in our minimi law there were two hundred offences against which the punishment of death was denounced,...cases of high treason, we involved innocent children in all the consequences of their fathers' guilt ; that in cases of corruption of blood we were even... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...a humane foreigner form of us, when he found that in our orimma law there were two hundred offences against which the punishment of death was denounced,...cases of high treason, we involved innocent children in all the consequences of their fathers' guilt ; that in cases of corruption of blood we were even... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 402 pages
...a humane foreigner form of us, when he found that in our crimma law there were two hundred offences against which the punishment of death was denounced,...cases of high treason, we involved innocent children in all the consequences of their fathers' guilt ; that in cases of corruption of blood we were even... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 pages
...that in our crimina law there were two hundred offences against which the punishment of death wait denounced, upon twenty of which only that punishment...cases of high treason, we involved innocent children in all the consequences of their fathers' guilt ; that in cases of corruption of blood we were even... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 264 pages
...foreigner form of us when he found that in our criminal law there were two hundred criminal offences against which the punishment of death was denounced,...odious, but which was impotent in practice from its very severity, — that in cases of high treason, we involved innocent children in all the consequences... | |
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