The Selected Writings of Benjamin RushPhilosophical Library, 1947 - 433 pages |
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Page 36
... punishment . 4. The punishment of murder by death , checks the opera- tions of universal justice , by preventing the punishment of every species of murder . Quack doctors - frauds of various kinds - and a licentious press , often ...
... punishment . 4. The punishment of murder by death , checks the opera- tions of universal justice , by preventing the punishment of every species of murder . Quack doctors - frauds of various kinds - and a licentious press , often ...
Page 41
... punishment for murder . I draw an argument of another nature from this fact . Are the horrors of conscience the punishment that God inflicts upon murder ? why , then , should we shorten or destroy them by death , especially as we are ...
... punishment for murder . I draw an argument of another nature from this fact . Are the horrors of conscience the punishment that God inflicts upon murder ? why , then , should we shorten or destroy them by death , especially as we are ...
Page 48
... punishments of imprisonment and labor , would far exceed that which is derived from the punishment of death ; for it would be of longer duration , and it would more frequently occur , for , upon a principle laid down in the first essay ...
... punishments of imprisonment and labor , would far exceed that which is derived from the punishment of death ; for it would be of longer duration , and it would more frequently occur , for , upon a principle laid down in the first essay ...
Contents
ON SLAVEKEEPING 1773 | 3 |
A PLAN OF A PEACEOFFICE FOR THE UNITED STATES | 19 |
SYLVANIA 1777 | 54 |
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