The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 9
... greater variety of fraud , and subtilized to higher degrees of dexterity , and more occult methods of conveyance . The law then renews the pursuit in the heat of anger , and overtakes the offender again with death . By this practice ...
... greater variety of fraud , and subtilized to higher degrees of dexterity , and more occult methods of conveyance . The law then renews the pursuit in the heat of anger , and overtakes the offender again with death . By this practice ...
Pagina 10
... robbery ; to confound in common minds the gradations of in- iquity , and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less . If only murder were punished with death , very few robbers would stain 10 THE RAMBLER.
... robbery ; to confound in common minds the gradations of in- iquity , and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less . If only murder were punished with death , very few robbers would stain 10 THE RAMBLER.
Pagina 11
... greater security may be obtained , upon what principle shall we bid them forbear ? It may be urged , that the sentence is often miti- gated to simple robbery ; but surely this is to confess that our laws are unreasonable in our own ...
... greater security may be obtained , upon what principle shall we bid them forbear ? It may be urged , that the sentence is often miti- gated to simple robbery ; but surely this is to confess that our laws are unreasonable in our own ...
Pagina 12
... greater part of mankind , as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart is equally criminal , will scarcely believe that two malefactors so different in guilt can be justly doomed to the same punish- ment : nor ...
... greater part of mankind , as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart is equally criminal , will scarcely believe that two malefactors so different in guilt can be justly doomed to the same punish- ment : nor ...
Pagina 26
... greater powers of language : and by one or other the company was so happily amused , that I was neither heard nor seen , nor was able to give any other proof of my existence than that I put round the glass , and was in my turn permitted ...
... greater powers of language : and by one or other the company was so happily amused , that I was neither heard nor seen , nor was able to give any other proof of my existence than that I put round the glass , and was in my turn permitted ...
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