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Page xviii
... intereft of fociety to attempt it . Lord Coke , in his Epilogue to his third Inftitute , which treats of the Crown Law , after obferving , that frequent punishment does not prevent crimes , fays , " What a lamentable cafe it is , that ...
... intereft of fociety to attempt it . Lord Coke , in his Epilogue to his third Inftitute , which treats of the Crown Law , after obferving , that frequent punishment does not prevent crimes , fays , " What a lamentable cafe it is , that ...
Page xx
... lie under the more immediate engage- ments both of intereft and duty . " lo toht 3 4 The learned obferver on the ancient ftatutes , was certainly well founded , in fug- fuggesting that a reformation of the Eng- lib law can XX INTRODUCTION .
... lie under the more immediate engage- ments both of intereft and duty . " lo toht 3 4 The learned obferver on the ancient ftatutes , was certainly well founded , in fug- fuggesting that a reformation of the Eng- lib law can XX INTRODUCTION .
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... intereft in fuch a state is the only standard of right and wrong . Horace fays , that utilitas , which may be tranflated felf - intereft , is commonly the parent of right and wrong , or of justice and equity : Ipfa utilitas jufti prope ...
... intereft in fuch a state is the only standard of right and wrong . Horace fays , that utilitas , which may be tranflated felf - intereft , is commonly the parent of right and wrong , or of justice and equity : Ipfa utilitas jufti prope ...
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... intereft , therefore there is no fuch thing as juftice ; or if there is , it is a folly to practise it , fince we must neceffarily pre- judice ourselves by confulting the benefit of others . But what is the amount of these objec tions ...
... intereft , therefore there is no fuch thing as juftice ; or if there is , it is a folly to practise it , fince we must neceffarily pre- judice ourselves by confulting the benefit of others . But what is the amount of these objec tions ...
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... intereft to be juft . Even according to Epicurus , who argued against the Law of Nature , and re- folved every thing into pleasure and utility , Juftice is the only ftandard by which we can measure felf - intereft . Cicero's Offices ...
... intereft to be juft . Even according to Epicurus , who argued against the Law of Nature , and re- folved every thing into pleasure and utility , Juftice is the only ftandard by which we can measure felf - intereft . Cicero's Offices ...
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Page 9 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 254 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 132 - ... leaving the law to the court, but find for the plaintiff or defendant upon the issue to be tried, wherein they resolve both law and fact complicately, and not the fact by itself ; so as though they answer not singly to the question what is the law, yet they determine the law in all matters, where issue is joined and tried in the principal Dissenting Opinion: Gray, Shiras, JJ. case, but [ie except] where the verdict is special.
Page 223 - I am one, , Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have fo incens'd, that I am recklefs what I do, to fpite the world. 1 Mur. And I another, So weary with difafters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would fet my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't.
Page xxiv - ... What a lamentable case it is to see so many Christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows ; insomuch as if in a large field a man might see together all the Christians, that but in one year throughout England come to that untimely and ignominious death, if there were any spark of grace or charity in him, it would make his heart to bleed for pity and compassion.
Page 46 - For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law ; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law ; (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Page 291 - If a man counterfeit the King's money; and if a man bring false money into the realm counterfeit to the money of England, knowing the money to be false, to merchandise and make payment withal.
Page 417 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Page xxix - ... happily force their way to the thrones of princes be it known to them, that they come attended with the...
Page 134 - L not not guilty : for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be t6 the Judge, if he at his peril muft take upon him the guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if the Judge's opinion muft rule the matter of fact, the trial by Jury would be ufelefs.