 | Books - 1837
...punishment of it : as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice, and the most painful reflection of all must be, that...such a state of things was an overwhelming defect of religious principle in this community ; a principle which he considered as the polar star to guide... | |
 | James Macarthur - Electronic book - 1837 - 640 pages
...punishment of it : as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice, and the most painful reflection of all must be, that...such a state of things, was an overwhelming defect of religious principle in this community ; a principle which he considered as the polar star to guide... | |
 | James Macarthur - Electronic book - 1837 - 640 pages
...punishment of it ; as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice, and the most painful reflection of all must be, that...the effect of preventing crime by way of example. 39 religious principle in this community ; a principle which he considered as the polar star to guide... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1838
...the punishment of it ; as if the whole colony were in motion towards the several courts of justice ; and the most painful reflection of all must be, that...many capital sentences, and the execution of them, had not had the effect of preventing crime by the way of example." Though the number of offenders convicted... | |
 | Richard Whately - Penal colonies - 1840 - 119 pages
...punishment of it; as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice ; and the most painful reflection of all must be, that...such a state of things was, an overwhelming defect of religious principle in this community ; a principle which he considered as the polar star to guide... | |
 | Sir William Molesworth - Crime - 1840 - 76 pages
...the punishment of it; as if the whole colony were in motion towards the several courts of justice ; and the most painful reflection of all must be, that...so many capital sentences and the execution of them had not had the effect of preventing crime by the way of example." It may likewise be stated upon the... | |
 | Charles Wilkes - Antarctica - 1845
...the punishment of it ; as if the whole colony was in motion towards the several courts of justice ; and the most painful reflection of all must be that so many capita] sentences, and the execution of them, had not had the effect of preventing crime, by way of... | |
 | Charles Wilkes - Antarctica - 1849
...the punishment of it ; as if the whole colony was in motion towards the several courts of justice; and the most painful reflection of all must be that...many capital sentences, and the execution of them, had not had the effect of preventing crime, by way of example. " In his opinion, one grand cause of... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 372 pages
...punishment of it ; as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice ; and the most painful reflection of all must be, that...such a state of things was an overwhelming defect of religious principle in this community ; a principle which he considered as the polar star to guide... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 372 pages
...punishment of it; as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice; and the most painful reflection of all must be, that...such a state of things was an overwhelming defect of religious principle in this community; a principle which he considered as the polar star to guide a... | |
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... it would appear to one who could look down upon the community, as if the main business of us all were the commission of crime and the punishment of it : as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice, and the... 
