 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1767 - 282 pages
...in the moft eflential things ; efpecially when amfted by the paffions. Violent impreffions furprize us, but their effect is momentary; they are fit to...the multitude, a fpectacle, which in fome excites compamon mixed with indignation. Thefe fentiments occupy the mind much more than that falutary terror... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1767 - 218 pages
...things ; efpecially when aflifted by the paffions. Violent impreflions furprize us, but their effedr. is momentary ; they are fit to produce thofe revolutions...THE execution of a criminal is, to the multitude, a fpe&acle, which in fome excites compaflion mixed with indignation. Thefe fentiments occupy the mind... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1775 - 288 pages
...the moft eflential things ; efpecially when affifted by the paffions. Violent impreffions furprize us, but their effect is momentary ; they are fit to...contemplation of continued fuffering, terror is the only, or a leaft predominant fenfation. The feverity of a punimment mould be juft fufficient to excite companion... | |
 | William Sabatier - Great Britain - 1797 - 338 pages
...impreffions furprife us, but their effect is momentary ; they are fit to produce thofe revolutions s which inftantly transform a common man into a Lacedemonian...government they ought to be rather frequent than ftrong. Par. 7. The execution of a criminal is, to the multitude, a fpectade, which in fome excites companion... | |
 | Crime - 1804 - 474 pages
...produce those revolutions which instantly transform a common man into, a Lacedemonian or a Persian, but in a free and quiet government they ought to be rather frequent than strong. The execution of a criminal is to the multitude a spectacle which, in some, -excites compassion... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...produce those revolutions which instantly transform a common man into a Lacedemonian or a Persian ; but in a free and quiet government they ought to be rather frequent than strong. ,i The execution of a criminal is, to the multitude, a spectacle, which in some excites compassion... | |
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THE execution of a criminal is, to the .multitude, a fpectacle, which in fome excites compaffion mixed with indignation. Thefe fentiments occupy the mind much more than that falutary terror which the laws endeavour to infpire; but in the contemplation... 