 | Thomas Speed - 1894 - 206 sivua
...to this discussion, and copies of his work were in the possession of members of the club. He says: "It is a melancholy truth that among the variety of...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy,... | |
 | Andrew Harper - 1895 - 544 sivua
...Contrast this with Blackstone's statement in regard to England (quoted Ency. Brit., iv., p. 589) : " Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy,... | |
 | Arthur Rackham Cleveland - 1896 - 344 sivua
...themselves, we will cite a writer contemporary with the system, Sir William Blackstone. He says — ' It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy,... | |
 | William Dummer Northend - 1896 - 380 sivua
...and for other similar punishments, Lingard, IX., 318-326. Blackstone, nearly a century later, says, " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | Michigan. Governor - 1897 - 254 sivua
...judges and no one calls him a lunatic or anarchist. When he wrote, there were, quoting his own language, "among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or in other words to be worthy of... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1899 - 476 sivua
...England," nearly a hundred years after the end of the Massachusetts commonwealth, he acknowledged it as "a melancholy truth that among the variety of actions...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1900 - 642 sivua
...grades of heinousness. Says Blackstone: " It is a melancholy truth, 1 4 Bl. Com. 8. 1 4 Bl. Com. 8. that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;... | |
 | 1901 - 938 sivua
...Blackstone, who loved to extol " the wisdom and humanity of the laws of England." He pointed out, in 1/69, that " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 had been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." The class of... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1901 - 1008 sivua
...judges and no one calls him a lunatic or anarchist. When he wrote, there were, quoting his own language, "among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or in other words to be worthy of... | |
 | 1902 - 896 sivua
...Sussex of three centuries ago. And so would Sussex. We — or our better forebears — have builded •"Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 haye been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clersry, or, in other... | |
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It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of... 
