The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 12Walter Scott John Ballantyne and Company, 1823 - Europe |
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Page 158
... murder , and arson , was also denounced against being disguised on a high road , open heath , common , or down , -robbing warrens , -taking fish out of a river , -or breaking down the head or mound of a fish - pond . In the second place ...
... murder , and arson , was also denounced against being disguised on a high road , open heath , common , or down , -robbing warrens , -taking fish out of a river , -or breaking down the head or mound of a fish - pond . In the second place ...
Page 170
... murder and murderous offences those that attacked life and limb , or put the former to imminent hazard : the second would be composed of ar- son , highway robbery , piracy , and some other felonies of a similar de- gree of atrocity ...
... murder and murderous offences those that attacked life and limb , or put the former to imminent hazard : the second would be composed of ar- son , highway robbery , piracy , and some other felonies of a similar de- gree of atrocity ...
Page 172
... murder and burglary were levelled with offences deserving and receiv- ing a much slighter punishment . The law was deprived of its beneficent energy , and society of the protection which it needed , whenever that au- thority was ...
... murder and burglary were levelled with offences deserving and receiv- ing a much slighter punishment . The law was deprived of its beneficent energy , and society of the protection which it needed , whenever that au- thority was ...
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... murder , where the approbation of the crowd at the penalty , whose infliction they were assembled to behold , is visible and ardent , al- though not loud ; the expression of their pleasure being restrained by the extremity of distress ...
... murder , where the approbation of the crowd at the penalty , whose infliction they were assembled to behold , is visible and ardent , al- though not loud ; the expression of their pleasure being restrained by the extremity of distress ...
Page 177
... murder of Abel . This had some reference to what he should now advert to . Two men were lately tried by a jury for for- gery ; and although there was not a shadow of doubt as to their guilt , they were acquitted ; two others were next ...
... murder of Abel . This had some reference to what he should now advert to . Two men were lately tried by a jury for for- gery ; and although there was not a shadow of doubt as to their guilt , they were acquitted ; two others were next ...
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