The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 101A. Constable, 1855 |
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Page 87
... punished sins , crimes , and opinions ; it covered the country with its judges , its officers , and its spies ; it made its own laws , and executed them . What they were - what was its procedure - what was the nature and the amount of ...
... punished sins , crimes , and opinions ; it covered the country with its judges , its officers , and its spies ; it made its own laws , and executed them . What they were - what was its procedure - what was the nature and the amount of ...
Page 88
... punish all the guilty , without any exception , with the rigour and the publicity deserved by their crimes . Nothing ... punishment , and Valdez had answered , that he thought it better to conform to the usual rules of the Holy Office ...
... punish all the guilty , without any exception , with the rigour and the publicity deserved by their crimes . Nothing ... punishment , and Valdez had answered , that he thought it better to conform to the usual rules of the Holy Office ...
Page 89
... punishment those who have sinned for the first time and renounce their guilt : seeing that it is probable , that being educated persons , whose heresy has been the result of inquiry , they will fall into it again . I will also suggest ...
... punishment those who have sinned for the first time and renounce their guilt : seeing that it is probable , that being educated persons , whose heresy has been the result of inquiry , they will fall into it again . I will also suggest ...
Page 90
... punished by a cruel death here , and by eternal misery hereafter . With a strange confusion of thought , he considered such errors voluntary , or he would not have punished them ; and yet involuntary , or he would not have feared their ...
... punished by a cruel death here , and by eternal misery hereafter . With a strange confusion of thought , he considered such errors voluntary , or he would not have punished them ; and yet involuntary , or he would not have feared their ...
Page 91
... punish a man for being sea - sick as for being convinced . Again , it must be admitted that error , though involuntary , may lead to sin . A man may sin from not knowing what is his duty , or from believing that his duty consists mainly ...
... punish a man for being sea - sick as for being convinced . Again , it must be admitted that error , though involuntary , may lead to sin . A man may sin from not knowing what is his duty , or from believing that his duty consists mainly ...
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Page 286 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 286 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever...
Page 519 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 155 - So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. If a new road, for instance, were to be made through the grounds of a private person, it might perhaps be extensively beneficial to the public, but the law permits no man, or set of men, to do this without consent of the owner of the land.
Page 452 - Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more : Did he not this for France?
Page 232 - I am forced, with all humility, and yet plainly, to profess, that I cannot with safe conscience, and without the offence of the majesty of God, give my assent to the suppressing of the said exercises: much less can I send out any injunction for the utter and universal subversion of the same.
Page 349 - I know a citizen who adds or alters a letter in his name, with every plum he acquires; he now wants only the change of a vowel* to be allied to a sovereign prince in Italy ;f and that perhaps he may contrive to be done by a mistake of the graver upon his tomb-stone.
Page 102 - D'un simple bonnet de coton, Dit-on. Oh ! oh ! oh ! oh ! ah ! ah ! ah ! ah ! Quel bon petit roi c'était là ! La, la. Il fesait ses quatre repas Dans son palais de chaume, Et sur un âne, pas à pas, Parcourait son royaume.
Page 313 - The court does not recognize their application. There is no likeness between the cases. They are in opposition to each other, and there is an impassable gulf between them. The difference is that . which exists between freedom and slavery; and a greater cannot be imagined.
Page 313 - Such services can only be expected from one who has no will of his own, who surrenders his will in implicit obedience to that of another. Such obedience is the consequence only of uncontrolled authority over the body. There is nothing else which can operate to produce the effect. The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.