Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and Students at Law, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 - Political ethics |
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... remarks may appear if thus clearly and separately stated , they have been by no means always ac- knowledged either in religion or law . XXIV . The penal codes of all civilized nations recognize individual indictments and punishments ...
... remarks may appear if thus clearly and separately stated , they have been by no means always ac- knowledged either in religion or law . XXIV . The penal codes of all civilized nations recognize individual indictments and punishments ...
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... remarks that none but individuals can be responsible for penal offences , and cites Ch . J. Raymond as saying , in 1730 , that while a warden was answerable civilly for the acts of his deputy , he was not criminally . ] 1 punished , for ...
... remarks that none but individuals can be responsible for penal offences , and cites Ch . J. Raymond as saying , in 1730 , that while a warden was answerable civilly for the acts of his deputy , he was not criminally . ] 1 punished , for ...
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... remark without adding that analogy , if used as proof and not simply as illus- tration of what has already been proved , in matters relating to the Deity , is presumptuous and necessarily of a dangerous character , since it induces man ...
... remark without adding that analogy , if used as proof and not simply as illus- tration of what has already been proved , in matters relating to the Deity , is presumptuous and necessarily of a dangerous character , since it induces man ...
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... remarks , " Quomodo autem id sciam si roges , respondebo , eodem modo ac tu scis tres angulos trianguli æquales esse duobus rectis , et hoc sufficere negabit nemo cui sanum est cerebrum nec spiritus immundos somniat , qui nobis ideas ...
... remarks , " Quomodo autem id sciam si roges , respondebo , eodem modo ac tu scis tres angulos trianguli æquales esse duobus rectis , et hoc sufficere negabit nemo cui sanum est cerebrum nec spiritus immundos somniat , qui nobis ideas ...
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... remarks , " Quomodo autem id sciam si roges , respondebo , eodem modo ac tu scis tres angulos trianguli æquales esse duobus rectis , et hoc sufficere negabit nemo cui sanum est cerebrum nec spiritus immundos somniat , qui nobis ideas ...
... remarks , " Quomodo autem id sciam si roges , respondebo , eodem modo ac tu scis tres angulos trianguli æquales esse duobus rectis , et hoc sufficere negabit nemo cui sanum est cerebrum nec spiritus immundos somniat , qui nobis ideas ...
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Page 307 - Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...
Page 54 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 327 - ... he looked upon the independence and uprightness of the judges, as essential to the impartial administration of justice ; as one of the best securities of the rights and liberties of his subjects; and as most conducive to the honour of the crown.
Page 283 - That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 84 - I apprehend (when the term is used with any distinct meaning), an exercise of the judgment unaided by any Art or system of rules; such an exercise as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence; in which, having no established principles to guide us — no line of procedure, as it were, distinctly chalked out — we must needs act on the best extemporaneous conjectures we can form. He who is eminently...
Page 195 - Crimes are the acts of individuals, and not of denominations ; and therefore arbitrarily to class men under general descriptions, in order to proscribe and punish them in the lump for a presumed delinquency, of which perhaps but a part, perhaps none at all, are guilty, is indeed a compendious method...
Page 210 - Indeed, it is found by experience, that whenever the unconstitutional oppressions, even of the sovereign power, advance with gigantic strides, and threaten desolation to a state, mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity ; nor will sacrifice their liberty by a scrupulous adherence to those political maxims which were originally established to preserve it.
Page 362 - I numbered the efforts it made to accomplish this object. The grain fell sixty-nine times to the ground; but the insect persevered, and the seventieth time it reached the top. This sight gave me courage at the moment, and I never forgot the lesson.
Page 246 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the name of all the people aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Page 270 - Again, men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great deal of grief, in keeping company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all.