 | Costard Sly - 1833 - 238 páginas
...it would me. I should like very much 192 to see the same regulation adopted in the London Hospitals. PARKENRATH. Very well. Now, tell us what you think...— all actively and usefully employed — FENWICK. By the way, my dear Walsingham, did you go into the tailors' room ? WALSINGHAM. Yes — I looked into... | |
 | 1843 - 592 páginas
...plain but they are important. First, by executing a man, a productive labourer is lost to society. "The worst use you can make of a man is to hang him," says some really wise philosopher whose name I do not recollect. By preserving his life you might make him... | |
 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - 474 páginas
...complete. But the taste of the age shrinks from capital punishments ; a popular writer has said, that " the worst use you can make of a man, is to hang him," and the saying has sunk deep into the public mind ; for a great truth is hidden in that witty remark.... | |
 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - 474 páginas
...complete. But the taste of the age shrinks from capital punishments ; a popular writer has said, that " the worst use you can make of a man, is to hang him," and the saying has sunk deep into the public mind ; for a great truth is hidden in that witty remark.... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1863 - 438 páginas
...propose such a scheme, even if it could enter into his heart to conceive it. It has been said that the worst use you can make of a man is to hang him. But I differ from that opinion. That is a bad use to make of him, if you can avoid it. But there is... | |
 | Athenaeum Association (New York, N.Y.) - 1865 - 56 páginas
...cruelty to the State ? For one, sir, I must confess a mortal repugnance to bloody revenge, and I believe the worst use you can make of a man is to hang him. I would give full force to all those considerations, which are rightly urged against vindictive retaliation... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1866 - 764 páginas
...cruelty to the state? For one, sir, I must confess a mortal repugnance to bloody revenge, and I believe the worst use you can make of a man is to hang him. I would give full force to all those considerations which are rightly urged against vindictive retaliation,... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - 1866 - 764 páginas
...cruelty to the state? For one, sir, I must confess a mortal repugnance to bloody revenge, and I believe the worst use you can make of a man is to hang him. I would give full force to all those considerations which are rightly urged against vindictive retaliation,... | |
 | United States dept. of state - 1866 - 760 páginas
...cruelty to the state ? For one, sir, I must confess a mortal repugnance to bloody revenge, and I believe the worst use you can make of a man is to hang him. I would give full force to all those considerations which are rightly urged against vindictive retaliation,... | |
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... that justice must not be wholly superseded even by benignant mercy? Is not our new President right in saying that, in the present position of this nation, indulgence to leading traitors may be cruelty to the state? For one, sir, I must confess a mortal... 
