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... desire of doing good , these unite together to discountenance vice and to promote the cause of mo- rality , virtue and religion , upon liberal principles , they will tend to secure the accomplishment of the ends proposed by the laws ...
... desire of doing good , these unite together to discountenance vice and to promote the cause of mo- rality , virtue and religion , upon liberal principles , they will tend to secure the accomplishment of the ends proposed by the laws ...
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... desire of change and innovation ; and thirdly , a daring or rather a desperate contempt of death . The subject of a capital execution is considered as a hero , the victim of tyrannical law , or commiserated as a martyr to principles ...
... desire of change and innovation ; and thirdly , a daring or rather a desperate contempt of death . The subject of a capital execution is considered as a hero , the victim of tyrannical law , or commiserated as a martyr to principles ...
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... desire to have the slave trade re - established ; and on being told it was impossible , as the king and parliament of England would never consent to such an inhuman traffic , he expressed his regret , and said that the embassy would ...
... desire to have the slave trade re - established ; and on being told it was impossible , as the king and parliament of England would never consent to such an inhuman traffic , he expressed his regret , and said that the embassy would ...
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... desires . Beccaria repeated , that punishments should be analogous and proportionate to offences ; but still without explaining what he meant by this analogy , and still without giving any rule for the pro- portion . He made many ...
... desires . Beccaria repeated , that punishments should be analogous and proportionate to offences ; but still without explaining what he meant by this analogy , and still without giving any rule for the pro- portion . He made many ...
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... the good of society we desire to see them . They are works that must necessarily be studied by every man , who pre- tends tends to acquire accurate ideas of the science of legislation 124 " Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses . "
... the good of society we desire to see them . They are works that must necessarily be studied by every man , who pre- tends tends to acquire accurate ideas of the science of legislation 124 " Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses . "
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Page 54 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 54 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course, nor yet in the cold ground Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 53 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 55 - The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 54 - Shalt thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth— the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 53 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 279 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 13 - That the laws made by them for the purposes aforesaid shall not be repugnant, but, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England, and shall be transmitted to the King in Council for approbation, as soon as may be after their passing; and if not disapproved within three years after presentation, to remain in force.
Page 53 - At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 55 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings,— yet the dead are there...