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" He who knows not how often rigorous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which there is no repentance, has conversed very little with mankind. "
The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death - Page 5
by Basil Montagu - 1809 - 315 pages
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that ffate in which there is no repentance, has converfed very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compamon may incur from thofe who confound cruelty with firmncfs, I know not whether any wife man would...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 pages
...forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that flate in which there is no repentance, has converfed very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compaflion may incur from thofe who confound cruelty with firmnefs, I know not whether any wife man...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that ftate in which there is no repentance, has converfed very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compaflion may incur from thofe who confound cruelty with firmnefs, I know not whether any wife man...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that ftate in which there is no repentance, has converfed very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compaffion may incur from thofe who confound cruelty with firmnefs, I know not whether any wife man...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 3

1801 - 344 pages
...forgotten for fear of hurrying the ofFende r to that ftate in which there is no repentance, hasconverfed very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compalfion may incur from thofe who confound cruelty with firmnefs, I know not whether any wife man...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that ftate in which there is no repentance, has converfed very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compaffion may incur from thofe who confound cruelty with firmnefs, I know not whether any wife man...
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Select British Classics, Volume 7

1803 - 296 pages
...how often rigorous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which...less extensive. If those whom the wisdom of our laws has condemned to die, had been detected in their rudiments of robbery, they might, by properdiscipline...
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 3

1806 - 340 pages
...how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear oi hurrying the offender to that state in whith there is no repentance, has conversed very little...less extensive. If those whom the wisdom of our laws has condemned to die, had been detected in their rudiments of robbery,they might, by proper discipline...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 424 pages
...how often rigbrous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes arc concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which there is no repentance, lias conversed very little with mankind. And whatever epithets of reproach or contempt this compassion...
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The British Essayists;: Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 310 pages
...how often rigorous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which...less extensive. If those, whom the wisdom of our laws has condemned to die, had been detected in their rudiments of robbery, they might, by proper discipliBe...
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