 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 434 sider
...the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be hated, and pros, ecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of pushing a slight injury with death ; especially when he remembers, that the thief might have procured... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 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." In connexion with this hist consideration, Dr. Johnson "hau previously urged that the terror of death... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 728 sider
...ineß'ectuaf unless some will inform and some will prosecute ; but till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, information will always be...heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought ot punishing a slight injury with death, especially when he remembers that the thief might have procured... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 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... | |
 | Thomas M. Curley - 1998 - 728 sider
...achievement. After all, Mr. Justice Chambers fulfilled the wisdom of the great moralist's memorable words: "The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of punishing a slight injury with death" (Rambler ll4). There is a happy ending to the gloomy tale of Nanda Kumar's trial and execution. The... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1871 - 576 sider
...ineffectual unless some will inform and some will prosecute ; but " till we mitigate the penalties for mere violations of property, " information will always...he " was restrained only by his remaining virtue." In connection with this last consideration, Dr. Johnson had previously urged that the terror of death... | |
 | 1849 - 750 sider
...Island, to procure any thing stronger than snow-water." Affecting CircumstanceDit. 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... | |
 | 1770 - 742 sider
...mitigite the penalties for meer violations of property, information will always be hated and profecution dreaded. The heart of a good man cannot but recoil at the thought of punifhing a flight injury with death ; efpeciallf when he remembers, that the thief might have procured... | |
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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... 
