 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...injured, through compafllon, will often forbear to profecute : juries, through compaffion, will fometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty or...mitigate the nature of the offence : and judges, through compaffion, will refpite one half of the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy. Among fo... | |
 | 482 pages
...injured, through companion, will ofien forbear to profecute; juries, through compaffion, will fometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty or...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compaffion, will refpite one half of the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy. Among fo... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Crime - 1797 - 528 pages
...through companion, «' will often forbear to profecute: Juries, through * Companion, will fometimes forget their oaths, and " either acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of V the. offence :—and Judges, through companion, " will refpite one half the convifts, and recommend... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Crime - 1797 - 520 pages
...forbear to profccute :—Juries, through " compaOion, will fometimes forget their oaths, and " cither acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of ** the offence :—and Judges, through compafiion, " will rcfpite one half the convicls, and recommend « them to Royal Mercy." * , THE Roman... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...injured, through compaffion, will often forbear to profecute; juries, through compaffion, will fometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty or...mitigate the nature of the offence ; and judges, through compaffion, will refpite one half of the convi£ts, and recommend them to the royal mercy. — Among... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Crime - 1800 - 734 pages
...consequence of this severity, (to use the words of an admired Writer,) " The injured, through " compassion, " compassion, will often forbear to prosecute : Juries,...the " nature of the offence : and Judges, through com" passion, will respite one half the convicts, and " recommend them to Royal Mercy."* The Roman... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...through compaffion, will often forbear to pro- [19 3 fecute : juries, through cotnpaffion, will fometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty or...mitigate the nature of the offence : and judges, through compaffion, will refpite one half of the convicts,' and recommend them to the • Sp. L. b. 6. c. 16.... | |
 | 1821 - 608 pages
...list, instead of diminishing, increases the number <>f offenders. The injured, through compassion, will forbear to prosecute ; juries, through compassion,...oaths, and either acquit the guilty, or mitigate the offence ; and judges, through compassion, will respite one-half of the convicts, and recommend them... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through compassion, will often forbear...judges, through compassion, will respite one half of the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy. Among so many chances of escaping, the needy... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812 - 494 pages
...inflicting enormous punishments for crimes of a dye comparatively venial. " The injured," says he, " through compassion, will often forbear to " prosecute...judges, through compassion, will respite one " half of the convicts, and recommend them to Royal Mercy. " Among so many chances of escaping, the needy... | |
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So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute: juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty or mitigate the... 
