 Delusion, therefore, where there IS no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity ; and where it cannot be predicated of a man standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted ; and if courts of law...  The Quarterly review - Page 1801829Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 590 pages
...knowledge of good and evil is too general a description.'* In the same speech, however, Lord Erskine lias ventured to define the true character of insanity,...question legally, it is certain that madness is not alsvays accompanied by delusion, and that it is not necessary to prove insane belief to make out insanity.... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...singulat felicity of diction too, in the following pasage. ' Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity...crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted ; and if courts of law were to be governed by any other principle, every departure from sober, rational... | |
 | 1811 - 546 pages
...felicity of diction tox>, in the following pasage. * Delu'ion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, Is the true character of insanity...standing for life or death for a crime, he ought not, in iny kpinion, to be acquitted ; and if courts of law were to be governed by any 0ther principle, every... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Forensic orations - 1812 - 278 pages
...because unconscious of attack. 2 FOR JAMES HADFIELD. 17 Delusion) therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity...crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted ; and if courts of law were to be governed by any other principle, every departure from sober, rational... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 556 pages
...felicity of diction too, in the following passage : " Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity...crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted; and if courts of law were to be governed by any other principle, every departure from sober, rational... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1812 - 282 pages
...of attack. 2 - -^ -- • ,. v , FOR JAMES HADFIELD. 27 Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity...crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted ; and if courts of law were to be governed by any other principle, every de- f parture from sober,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...incapable of resistance, because unconscious of attack. Delusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity...predicated of a man standing for life or death for 2 crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted; and if Courts of law were to be governed by... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Anatomy - 1836 - 560 pages
...incapable of resistance, because unconscious of attack. j " Ddusion, therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity;...crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted; and if courts of law were to be governed by any other principle, every departure from sober rational... | |
 | Daniel MACNAUGHTON - 1843 - 96 pages
...out of which alone, it sprung. " Delusion," says Lord Erskine, " therefore, where there is no frenzy or raving madness, is the true character of insanity,...crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted ; and if the courts of law were to be governed by any other principle, every departure from sober rational... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 532 pages
...Insanity. Boston, 1838. 2 On the different Forms of Insanity in relation to Jurisprudence. London, 1842. or death for a crime, he ought not, in my opinion, to be acquitted ; and if courts of law were to be governed by any other principle, every departure from sober rational... | |
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