 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1817 - 726 pages
...of the crime, does not hold in our law ; for that, with us, punishment is not revenge nor atonement. If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were...it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished. The sole object of punishment among us is only to deter others from committing... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1818 - 812 pages
...his opinion upon the verdict of the Jury on the Trial of Mr. Muir, made use of these words : — " If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were...it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolistfed.. The sole object of punishment among us is only to deter others from committing... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1843 - 830 pages
...property on their backs, and li-ave the country in a twinkling of an eye!" It Wits Lord Swinton who had said, " If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were to be sought fur. It could not be found in our law, iiow that torture u TtappUy Abolished.*' treated with comparative... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1843 - 812 pages
...property on their back», and leave tho country in a twinkling of an eye!" It WMS Lord Swintou who had said, " If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were to be sought fur, it could not be found in our law, now that torture ь /¡aypily abolished.' ' treated with comparative... | |
 | William Howitt - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1846 - 376 pages
...property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling of an eye." And Judge Swinton added, " If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were...in our law, now that torture was happily abolished ! " SM^ ! Thorns Paine. | This last gentleman, a lawyer in good practice, was tried, and condemned... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1862 - 644 pages
...country in the twinkling of an eye!" Lord Swinton said, " If punishment adequate to the crime of sadition were to be sought for, it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished." The lordadvocate was in his place to defend his conduct and doctriuu in court,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1863 - 608 pages
...distinguish Muir's crime from high treason, and said, with a ferocity unworthy of a Christian judge, " if punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were...it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished." He concurred in the sentence of transportation, — referring to the Roman law... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1865 - 684 pages
...distinguish Muir's crime from high treason, and said, with a ferocity unworthy of a Christian judge, "if punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were...it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished." He concurred in the sentence of transportation, — referring to the Roman law... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1865 - 672 pages
...distinguish Muir's crime froTn high treason, and said, with a ferocity unworthy of a Christian judge, "if punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were...it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished." He concurred in the sentence of transportation, — referring to the Roman law... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 650 pages
...all their property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling of an eye ! " Lord Swinton said, "If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were to be sought for, it could not be found iu our law, now that torture is happily abolished." The lordadvocate was in his place to defend his... | |
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If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were to be sought for, it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished. 
