The Truth-seeker in philosophy, literature, and religion, ed. by F.R. Lees and G.S. Phillips. [Continued as] The Truth-seeker and present age, Volume 2 |
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Pagina 29
... capital crimes remained upon the statute book , among which were , the stealing to the value of five shillings in a dwelling house , consorting a whole year with gypsies , and cutting a stick from a plantation . The number of capital ...
... capital crimes remained upon the statute book , among which were , the stealing to the value of five shillings in a dwelling house , consorting a whole year with gypsies , and cutting a stick from a plantation . The number of capital ...
Pagina 30
... capital offence . In about one hundred years ( from 1600 to 1700 ) some sixty thousand persons were executed for this crime . 1735 the last of these penal statutes was repealed . The seceders of Scotland , in their annual confession of ...
... capital offence . In about one hundred years ( from 1600 to 1700 ) some sixty thousand persons were executed for this crime . 1735 the last of these penal statutes was repealed . The seceders of Scotland , in their annual confession of ...
Pagina 33
... capital punishments do not shield human life , -if it can be shown that there are numer- ous instances where death punishments have been repealed without any increase , nay with an actual diminution , of the crime of murder , -is there ...
... capital punishments do not shield human life , -if it can be shown that there are numer- ous instances where death punishments have been repealed without any increase , nay with an actual diminution , of the crime of murder , -is there ...
Pagina 34
... capital crimes were increasing at the rate of 10 per cent . , and capital crimes at the rate of 31 per cent . , the crimes which were made non - capital as above , actually diminished 9 per cent . on the removal of the extreme penalty ...
... capital crimes were increasing at the rate of 10 per cent . , and capital crimes at the rate of 31 per cent . , the crimes which were made non - capital as above , actually diminished 9 per cent . on the removal of the extreme penalty ...
Pagina 35
Truth-seeker and present age. Capital Punishments have failed in their object . They cannot create a respect for life , on which alone its security depends . They familiarize the mind with images of death . They feed the passions of the ...
Truth-seeker and present age. Capital Punishments have failed in their object . They cannot create a respect for life , on which alone its security depends . They familiarize the mind with images of death . They feed the passions of the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 196 - I A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep 5 Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Pagina 283 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Pagina 16 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Pagina 162 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Pagina 44 - Napoleon. As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick ; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Pagina 283 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Pagina 65 - For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.
Pagina 176 - Danoos begin to stir up the waters of the ocean for the discovery of the Amreeta. " The mighty Asoors were employed on the side of the serpent's head, whilst all the Soors assembled about his tail. Ananta, that sovereign Dew, stood near Narayan.
Pagina 239 - Sabbatarians, however, think these reasons unsatisfactory, and assert that the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, was effected by Constantine, upon his conversion to the Christian religion.
Pagina 56 - Men of all lands shall exercise the same In due proportion to their country's need ; Learning, though late, that all true glory rests. All praise, all safety, and all happiness, Upon the moral law.