 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by a£t of ' parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inflant death. So dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifning, increafes the number of offenders. * -jt... | |
 | 482 pages
...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 of clergy ; or, in other words, to be wor- s thy of inftant death. So dreadful « lilt, instead of diminishing, incrcales the number of offenders.... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...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, in other words, to be worthy of inll.uit death.— So 4 • dreadful a6o dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifhing, increafcs the number... | |
 | 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
...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...list, instead of diminishing, increases the number <>f offenders. The injured, through compassion, will forbear to prosecute ; juries, through compassion,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...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, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.' (4 Blackstone, Com. 18.) When we come to enquire into the nature of the crimes of which thjs dreadrul... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...commit, no less than a hun" dred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be • " fekmies, without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be " worthy of instant death;" and the catalogue has beean sine. e enlarged I- i . . . -t .- ;-.,;..!,.. The apology for many of those... | |
 | 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
...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...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death *." When we come to enquire into the nature of the crimes of which this dreadful catalogue is composed,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812 - 494 pages
...expressed his regret, that there were then no fewer than one hundred and sixty offences, which had been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy. At the largest allowance, and taking in all that are provided for at common law, as well as by statute,... | |
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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... 
