 | William Paley - Ethics - 1788 - 584 pages
...deterred from the application of thefe rules by every fufpicion of danger, or by the mere poffibility of confounding the innocent with the guilty. They ought rather to reflect, that he who falls by a miftaken fentence, may be confidercd as falling for his country ; whilft he fuffers under the operation... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1806 - 502 pages
...public are infested ; courts of justice should not be deterred from the application of these rules by every suspicion of danger, or by the mere possibility...guilty. They ought rather to reflect, that he who fells by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country : whilst he suffers under... | |
 | Samuel Romilly - Capital punishment - 1810 - 92 pages
...to cure, and destroys the security it was made to preserve. " They ought rather," continues Paley, " to reflect, that he - - who falls by a mistaken sentence,...suffers under the operation of those " rules, by the general effect and tender. > of which the welfare "of the community is maintained ar.l upheld." Nothing... | |
 | Samuel Romilly - Capital punishment - 1810 - 86 pages
...cure, and destroys the security it was made to preserve. * , , " They ought rather," continues Paley, " to reflect, that he «' who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling t . t , 75 " for his country, whilst he suffers under the operation of those " rules, by the general... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 456 pages
...public are infested ; courts of justice should not be deterred from the application of these rules by every suspicion of danger, or by the mere possibility...suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained and upholden. CHAPTER... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...publick are infested ; courts of justice should not be deterred from the application of these rules by every suspicion of danger, or by the mere possibility...suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained and upholden. CHAPTER... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1811 - 444 pages
...to cure, and destroys the security it waa made to preserve. " They ought rather," continues Paley, " to reflect, that he who falls by a mistaken sentence,...suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained and upheld." — Nothing... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...cure, and destroys the security it was made to preserve. .,r " They ought rather, " continues Paley,1-" to reflect, that he " who falls by a mistaken sentence,...country, whilst he suffers under the operation 'of these rules, " by the general effect and tendency of which tlj* welfare of the " community is maintained... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1811 - 444 pages
...it was made to preserve. ' ' -" They ought rather," continues Paley, " to reflect, that he who fells by a mistaken sentence-, may be considered as falling...suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained and upheM." — Nothing... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1811 - 440 pages
...goes on to observe, " that courts of justice should not be deterred from the application of their own rules of adjudication, by every suspicion of danger,...possibility of confounding the innocent with the guilty." — And in this observation every body must agree with him. If courts of justice were never to inflict... | |
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They ought rather to reflect, that he who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country ; whilst he suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained... 
