 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1767 - 218 pages
...repeated impreflions. The death of a criminal is a terrible but momentary fpectacle, and therefore a lefs efficacious method of deterring others, than the continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned, as a beaf t of burthen, to repair, by his labour, the injury he has done to fociety. If... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1788 - 256 pages
...repeated impreflions. The death of a criminal is a terrible but momentary fpeeTiacle, and therefore a lefs efficacious method of deterring others, than the continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned as a beaft of burden, to repair, by his labour, the injury he has done to fockty. If I commit... | |
 | 1794 - 540 pages
...more obdurate. The death of a criminal is a terrible, but momentary fpectacle, and therefore * lefs efficacious method of deterring others, than the continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned, as a beaft of burden, to repair, by his labour, the injury he has done to fociety. t If... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...powerfully affected by weak, but re" peated impressions, than by a violent, but momentary impulse. " The death of a criminal is a terrible, but momentary...continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemn" ed as a beast of burden, to repair by his labour the injury he has " done to society. If I... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...satisfy our necessities, so the ideas of morality are stamped on our minds by repeated impressions. The death of a criminal is a terrible but momentary...less efficacious method of deterring others, than the continual example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned as a beast of burthen, to repair by his... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812 - 494 pages
...death of a criminal is a terrible, but a momentary impulse; and is therefore a less efficacious mode of deterring others, than the' continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, and condemned, as a species of beast of burthen, to repair by the toils of his whole life the injury which he has... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1819 - 248 pages
...satisfy our necessities, so the ideas of morality are stamped on our minds by repeated impression^. The death of a criminal is a terrible but momentary...continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned, as a beast of burden, to repair, by his labour, the injur he has done to society, If I commit... | |
 | Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 520 pages
...by any right." If so, how shall we recognise the maxim, that a man has no right to kill himself? " The death of a criminal is a terrible, but momentary..." A condition so miserable is a much more powerful preventative than the fear of death, which men always behold in distant obscurity." Twenty years have... | |
 | Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - England - 1832 - 504 pages
...by any right." If so, how shall we recognise the maxim, that a man has no right to kill himself? " The death of a criminal is a terrible, but momentary..." A condition so miserable is a much more powerful preventative than the fear of death, which men always behold in distant obscurity." Twenty years have... | |
 | Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - England - 1832 - 730 pages
...by any right." If so, how shall we recognise the maxim, that a man has no right to kill himself? " The death of a criminal is a terrible, but momentary..." A condition so miserable is a much more powerful preyentative than the fear of death, which men always behold in distant obscurity." Twenty years have... | |
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The death of a criminal is a terrible but momentary spectacle, and therefore a less efficacious method of deterring others than the continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned, as a beast of burden, to repair, by his labour, the injury... 
