...daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by a£t of ' parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inflant death. So dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifning, increafes the number of offenders. * -jt...

...which men are daily liable to commit, no lcl» than one hundred and fixty have been declared by afts of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be wor- s thy of inftant death. So dreadful « lilt, instead of diminishing, incrcales the number of offenders....

...variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no lefs than 160 have been declared by adls of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of inll.uit death.— So 4 • dreadful a6o dreadful a lift, inftead of diminifhing, increafcs the number...

...daily liable to commit, no lefs than an hundred and fixty have been declared by act of parliament b to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of inftant death. So dreadful a lift, infteadof diminiming, incrcafes the number of offenders. The injured,...

...expressed his regret, that there were then no fewer than one hundred and sixty offences, which had been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy. At the largest allowance, and taking in all that are provided for at common law, as well as by statute,...

...truth," says Blackstone,* " that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, not less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament, to be fellonious without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." The same...

...is a melancholy truth," says Sir William Blackstone, '•* that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred...parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy :" And since the time when Sir William wrote the list has been greatly increased. It is vain to urge...

...melancholy tmtli, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without bcneßt of Clergy ; or, in olher words, to be worthy of instant dcal/i." — The Reader may judge how...

...of England during the reigns of the three Georges. " It is a melancholy fact," wrote Blackstone, " that among the variety of actions men are daily liable...sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be worthy of instant death." In the Colony of Massachusetts Bay there were only twenty capital offences,...

...Blackstone remarked, " It is a melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily most liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament, " Scott's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, BI c. 56, pp. 475, 476. to be felonies without benefit of clergy,...