 To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime, to prevent the detection of a less.  The Rambler - Page 276by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 1751 - 228 pages
...laft refort of authority, as the ftrongeft and moft operative of prohibitory fan&ions; and placed only before the treafure of life, to guard from invafion...robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of injury, and incite the commiiiior, of a greater crime, to prevent the deteftion of a lefs. If only... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...referred as the laft refort of authority, as the ftrongeft and moft operative of prohibitory fanctions, and placed before the treafure of life, to guard from...To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robber)-, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commiflion of a greater... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 472 pages
...referved as the laft refort of authority, as the ftrongcfi and mof t operative of prohibitory fanctions, and placed before the treafure of life, to guard from...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commiffion ot a greater crime to prevent the detection of a lefs. If only murder were punifhed with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...the treafure of life, to guard from invaiion what cannot be reftored. To equal robbery with murder ii to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the comminion of a greater crime to prevent the, detection of a lefs. If only murder were punifhed with... | |
 | 1794 - 540 pages
...nothing to deter men from committing the greater^ as often as it is attended with greater advantage. ft To equal robbery with murder, is to reduce murder...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commiffion of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a lefs. J| He who knows not how often rigorous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 458 pages
...referved as the laft refort of authority, as the ftrongeft and moft operative of prohibitory fanctions, and placed before the treafure of life, to guard from...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commiffion of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a lefs. If only murder were punifhed with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...referved as the laft refort of authority, as the ftrongeft and moft operative of prohibitory fanctions, and placed before the treafure of life, to guard from...•with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to con. found in . common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commiffion of a greater crime... | |
 | 1801 - 344 pages
...referved as the laft refort of authority, as the ftrongeft and moft operative of prohibitory fan&ions, and placed before the treafure of life, to guard from...what cannot be reftored. To equal robbery with murder it to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...sanctions, and placed before the treasure of life, to guard from invasion what cannot be restored. To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less. If only murder were punished with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...prohibitory sanctions, ami placed before the treasure of life to guard from invasion what cannot be restored. To equal robbery with murder, is to reduce murder...common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime, to prevent the detection of a less. If only murder was punished with... | |
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