 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 sider
...ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be...which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue. The obligations to assist the exercise of publick justice are indeed strong ; but they will certainly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 456 sider
...ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be...man cannot but recoil at the thought of punishing u slight injury with death ; especially when he rememt % bers that the thief might have procured safety... | |
 | Matthew Hale - 1820 - 582 sider
...refused to sit there any more, because, "in " matters of blood, he was always to chuse the safer side." The heart of a good man, cannot but recoil, at the thought of punishing a slight injury with death; and he who knows not how often rigorous laws, produce total impunity; and how many crimes are concealed... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 sider
...ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be...which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue. The obligations to assist the exercise of public justice are indeed strong ; but they will certainly... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 sider
...some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, informations will always be hated, and prosecution dreaded. The...which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue. The obligations to assist the exercise of public justice are indeed strong: but they will certainly... | |
 | Andrew Wilkie - 1824 - 348 sider
...candid woman seem " in ruling her spirit, than he that taketh a city." SINGULAR TRIAL. Dr. Johnson says, the heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought...which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue." The following sufficiently exemplifies the truth of this observation. Some years since, the county... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 sider
...ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be...which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue. The obligations to assist the exercise of publick justice are indeed strong ; but they will certainly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 sider
...ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be...that the thief might have procured safety by another I crime, from which he was restrained only by his remaini ing virtue. The obligations to assist the... | |
 | 1825 - 840 sider
...patient and godly. AFFLICTING CIRCUMSTANCES, DEVELOPED ON A TRIAL FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Dr. Johnson says, the heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought...which he was restrained only by his remaining virtue. The following sufficiently exemplifies the truth of this observation. Some years since, the county... | |
 | 1830 - 824 sider
...prosecute ; bnt till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of properly, information will be always hated, and prosecution dreaded. The heart of a good...have procured safety by another crime, from which Le was restrained only by his remaining virtue. The obligations to assist the exercise of public justice... | |
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All laws against wickedness are ineffectual, unless some will inform, and some will prosecute; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be hated, and prosecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot... 
