 | Patrick Colquhoun - Crime - 1800 - 734 pages
...ultimately to this resource, if other devices shall fail. To shew mankind that crimes are sometimes wholly pardoned, and that punishment is not the necessary...is the cause of their considering every punishment which is actually inflicted, as an act of injustice and oppression. x- Let the Legislator be tender,... | |
 | 1811 - 538 pages
...ought to shine in the cade not in private judgments. To show mankind that crimes may be pardoned, or that punishment is not the necessary consequence, is to nourish the flattering hope of impunity." — " Lei then the executor of the Ianbe inexorable, but let the legislator be tender, indulgent, and... | |
 | William Roscoe - Criminal law - 1819 - 342 pages
...to shine in the code, not in private judg" ments. To show mankind that crimes may be pardoned, " or that punishment is not the necessary consequence,...to " nourish the flattering hope of impunity."—" Let then the " executor of the law be inexorable, but let the legislator be " tender, indulgent, and... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Political ethics - 1839 - 714 pages
...executor of the laws; a virtue which ought to shine in the code, and not in private judgment. To show mankind that crimes are sometimes pardoned, and that...prince, in pardoning, gives up the public security in favor of an individual, and, by ill-judged benevolence, proclaims a public act of impunity. Let, then,... | |
 | John Field - Philanthropists - 1850 - 534 pages
...executor of the laws ; a virtue which ought to shine in the code, and not in private judgment. To show mankind, that crimes are sometimes pardoned, and that...cause of their considering every punishment inflicted PS an act of injustice and oppression. The prince, in pardoning, gives up the public security in favour... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Democracy - 1853 - 842 pages
...private judgment. To show mankind that crimes are sometimes pardoned, and that punishment is not a necessary consequence, is to nourish the flattering...prince, in pardoning, gives up the public security in favor of an individual, and by ill-judged benevolence proclaims a public act of impunity. Let, then,... | |
 | History, Modern - 1853 - 612 pages
...and that punishment is not a necessary consequence, is to nourish the flattering hope of impunity, is the cause of their considering every punishment...prince, in pardoning, gives up the public security in favor of an individual, and by ill-judged benevolence proclaims a public act of impunity. Let, then,... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1859 - 568 pages
...executor of the laws ; a virtue which ought to shine in the code and not in private judgment. To show mankind that crimes are sometimes pardoned, and that...inflicted as an act of injustice and oppression. The government, in pardoning, gives up the public security in favor of an individual, and by its ill-judged... | |
 | Prison Association of New York - Prisons - 1850 - 604 pages
...and that punishment is not a necessary con sequence, is to nourish the flattering hope of impunity, is the cause of their considering every punishment...oppression. The prince in pardoning, gives up the public secu rity in favor of an individual, and by ill-judged benevolence pro claims a public act of impunity.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1868 - 1132 pages
...private judgment. To show mankind that crimes are sometimes pardoned, and that punishment is not a necessary consequence, is to nourish the flattering...inflicted as an act of injustice and oppression." My object is not to increase the severity of the laws, but to enable Parliament to proceed by legislation... | |
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To show mankind, that crimes are sometimes pardoned, and that punishment is not the necessary consequence, is to nourish the flattering hope of impunity, and is the cause of their considering every punishment inflicted as an act of injustice and oppression. 
