Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography, Volume 4Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1830 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... natural temperature . The Poles never wear any thing round the neck , notwithstanding the severity of their winters . The same custom prevails among the Orientals , by whom a white , round neck is compared to the beauty of an ivory ...
... natural temperature . The Poles never wear any thing round the neck , notwithstanding the severity of their winters . The same custom prevails among the Orientals , by whom a white , round neck is compared to the beauty of an ivory ...
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... natural justice . States have , indeed , at all times , exercised the power of punishment , without waiting for or regarding such the- oretical investigations , because it is obvi- ous that , without the right of punishing , no state ...
... natural justice . States have , indeed , at all times , exercised the power of punishment , without waiting for or regarding such the- oretical investigations , because it is obvi- ous that , without the right of punishing , no state ...
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... natural abhor- rence of wrong , heightened by a good education and good example . If the plan of deterring should be carried through consistently , it would compel us to propor- tion punishment rather to the temptation to commit crimes ...
... natural abhor- rence of wrong , heightened by a good education and good example . If the plan of deterring should be carried through consistently , it would compel us to propor- tion punishment rather to the temptation to commit crimes ...
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... natural justice and the duty of the state to protect all its subjects . Hence , in the common law , two classes of offences are distinctly traced out . The first em- braces those which rest upon legislative enactments . The second ...
... natural justice and the duty of the state to protect all its subjects . Hence , in the common law , two classes of offences are distinctly traced out . The first em- braces those which rest upon legislative enactments . The second ...
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... natural opera- tions of judicial responsibility , than , by any attempts to define and limit the exact de- gree of punishment , to run the hazard of introducing other mischiefs by excluding mercy where it might be most desirable . No ...
... natural opera- tions of judicial responsibility , than , by any attempts to define and limit the exact de- gree of punishment , to run the hazard of introducing other mischiefs by excluding mercy where it might be most desirable . No ...
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