| Anecdotes - 1826 - 372 pages
...many wicked thieves escape. For most commonly the most simple countrymen and women, looking no farther than to the loss of their own goods, are of opinion...not procure any man's death, for all the goods in ike world." Queen Elizabeth was a great advocate for the certainty of punishment, and the rigid execution... | |
| William Cobbett - Catholic emancipation - 1824 - 394 pages
...wicked thieves escape. For most •" commonly the most simple countrymen and women, look" ing no farther than to the loss of their own goods, are of •" opinion,...man's death, for •*' all the goods in the world." And while the " good Bess " .complained bitterly of the non-execution of her lavrs, the same Protestant... | |
| Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 840 pages
...many wicked thieves escape. FIT most commonly the most simple countrymen and women, looking no farthn than to the loss of their own goods, are of opinion...any man's death, for all the goods in the world." Queen Elizabeth was a great advocate for the certainty of punishment, awi the riaid exertion of the... | |
| Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...many wicked thieves escape. For most commonly the most simple countrymen and women, looking no farther than to the loss of their own goods, are of opinion...any man's death, for all the goods in the world-" Queen Elizabeth was a great advocate fur the certainty of punishment, and the rigid exertion of the... | |
| 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 - 1828 - 608 pages
...robbed give fair evidence For most commonly, the most simple man and woman, looking no further than the loss of their own goods, are of opinion, that...And these, that thus escape, infect great numbers, embolding them by their escapes. But the greatest fault is in the inferior ministers of justice, which... | |
| 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 - 1828 - 608 pages
...robbed give fair evidence For most commonly, the most simple man and woman, looking no further than the loss of their own goods, are of opinion, that...And these, that thus escape, infect great numbers, embolding them by their escapes. But the greatest fault is in the inferior ministers of justice, which... | |
| 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 - 1828 - 626 pages
...robbed give fair evidence For most commonly, the most simple man and woman, looking no further than the loss of their own goods, are of opinion, that...And these, that thus escape, infect great numbers, embolding them by their escapes. But the greatest fault is in the inferior ministers of justice, which... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1822 - 866 pages
...default of justice, many wicked thieves escape. For most commonly the most simple countrymen and women, looking no further than to the loss of their own goods,...any man's death, for all the goods in the world." This conveys a striking picture of the slate, both of the law and of the country, at that time. It... | |
| William Cobbett - Reformation - 1829 - 538 pages
...women, looking no farther than " to the loss of their own goods, arc of opinion Increase of LETTER "that they would not procure any man's death, " for all the goods in the world." And while the "good Bess" complained bitterly of the non-execution of her laws, the same Protestant... | |
| William Cobbett - Reformation - 1899 - 444 pages
...wicked thieves escape ; for most commonly the most simple countrymen and women, looking no farther than to the loss of their own goods, are of opinion...procure any man's death for all the goods in the world." And while Elizabeth complained bitterly of the non-execution of her laws, the same Protestant historian... | |
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