 | English literature - 1786 - 558 pages
...Obferver, in reply, after qu.iticg Judge Biacklti-.jï's rcm.iik, that " it к л melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs ilian 160 have beca declared, by Act of Ku hament, to IK ibknies without beneh«. of clergy ;... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...fucccflive independent ftatutes, upon crimes very different in, their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by a£t of ' parliament b to be felonies without... | |
 | 482 pages
...lucceSfive independent Statutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lcl» than one hundred and fixty have been declared by afts of parliament to be felonies without benefit... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...fucceffive independent ftatutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. — It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs than 160 have been declared by adls of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by act of parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inftant death. So dreadful a lift, infteadof diminiming, incrcafes the number of offenders. The injured,... | |
 | 1821 - 608 pages
...snccessive independent statutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...p. 12. i, " The first thing which strikes one upon entering on this task, is this melancholy truth, that, ' among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament tp be felonies without benefit of clergy,... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...civilized nations in Europe? " It is a melancholy truth," (says the commentator on the laws of England*), " that among the variety of " actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hun" dred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be • " fekmies, without benefit... | |
 | 1811 - 538 pages
...commit, no leas than one hundred and i\ii/ have been de~ clared, by act of parliament, to be felony without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be •worthy of instant Jeatk." The number of capital punishments has been considerably augmented ,-ince the publication of... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...Sp. L. b. 6. c. 15. statutes, upon crimes very different in their natures. It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared, by a6l of parliament $, to be felonies without benefit of... | |
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It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of... 
