 | Basil Montagu - 1809 - 338 pages
...same universal remedy, the uttimum svpplicium, to every case of difficulty. It is, it must be owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind ; yet...cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb, which through ignorance or indolence he will not attempt to cure. It has been therefore ingeniously proposed J, that,... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1819 - 342 pages
...in a well regulated community, to be punished with death. " It must be owned," says 1$ luck stone, " that it is* much easier to extirpate, than to amend...unnecessary, are inhuman and immoral. Sensibility sleeps m the lap of luxury, and the legislator is contented to secure his own selfish enjoyments by subjecting... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 pages
...difficulty. It is, it must be owned, much easier to extirpate , than to amend mankind : yet that magistrate must be esteemed both a weak and a cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb, which through ignorance or indolence he will not attempt to cure. It has been therefore ingeniously proposed *, that... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 pages
...owned, much easier to extirpate , than to amend mankind : yet that magistrate must be esteemed [ 18 J both a weak and a cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb, which through ignorance or indolence he will not attempt to cure. It has been therefore ingeniously proposed % that... | |
 | 1846 - 398 pages
...if other punishments were more satisfactory in their issue. " It must be owned," said the celebrated Blackstone, " that it is much easier to extirpate,...indolence or ignorance, he will not attempt to cure." On the hospital of St Michele at Rome is this inscription, which the philanthropist Howard adopted... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 796 pages
...difficulty. It is, it must be owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind; vet that magistrate must be esteemed both a weak and a cruel surgeon who...through indolence or ignorance he will not attempt to cure."f The language of Blackstone is, indeed, as it ought to be, wary and temperate. But his real... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind ; yet that magistrate must be esteemed bot!) a weak and a cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb which through ignorance or indolence he will not attempt to cure. The disproportionate nature of the punishment attached... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 pages
...it must be owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind : yet *that magistrate must [*18 ] be esteemed both a weak and a cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb, which through ignorance or indolence he will not The most admirable and ox- sity and love of a king and prince, oellent... | |
 | 1845 - 572 pages
...Blackstone, " to apply too frequently the same universal remedy, the ultimum supplicium ; and that magistrate must be esteemed both a weak and a cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb, which, through ignorance or indolence, he will not attempt to cure."t The idea of capital puuishments would naturally... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 770 pages
...difficulty. It is, it must be owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind; yet that magistrate must be esteemed both a weak and a cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb, which, through ignorance or indolence, he will not attempt to cure. It has been, therefore, ingeniously proposed,... | |
| |
It is a kind of quackery in government, and argues a want of solid skill, to apply the same universal remedy, the ultimum supplicium, to every case of difficulty. It is, it must be owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind; yet that magistrate... 
