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Page 17 - Upon this, I who took the boldness to speak freely before the cardinal, said there was no reason to wonder at the matter, since this way of punishing thieves was neither just in itself, nor good for the public ; for as the severity was too great, so the remedy was not effectual ; simple theft not being so great a crime, that it ought to cost a man his life...
Page 17 - ... said I, not only you in England, but a great part of the world imitate some ill masters, that are readier to chastise their scholars than to teach them. There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves ; but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing, and of dying for it.
Page 13 - Which convention is not properly to exercise the legislative power, but only to debate freely, and agree upon the particulars...
Page 13 - ... the most natural way for which would seem to be by a general council, or convention of faithful, honest, and discerning men, chosen for that purpose by the free consent of the whole body...
Page 7 - are mostly tall of stature,* fair and red-haired, and horrible from the fierceness of their eyes, fond of strife, and haughtily insolent. A whole band of strangers would not endure one of them, aided in his brawl by his powerful and blue-eyed wife, especially when with swollen neck and gnashing teeth, poising her huge white arms, she begins, joining kicks to blows, to put forth her fists like stones from a catapult.
Page 14 - God hath exempted out of his commission, so that all care requisite for the people's obtaining this may be exercised with great ease, if it be taken in its proper season ; and that this restraint be laid upon the supreme power before it be erected, as a fundamental constitution...
Page 17 - ... as he said, were then hanged so fast, that there were sometimes twenty on one gibbet; and upon that he said he could not wonder enough how it came to pass, that since so few escaped, there were yet so many thieves left who were still robbing in all places.
Page 14 - ... forbearing to put forth the power of rule and coercion in things that God hath exempted out of his commission, so that all care requisite for the people's obtaining this may be exercised with great ease, if it be taken in its proper season ; and that this restraint...
Page 22 - ... then through genera which are, in succession, appropriate to marshes, jungles, dry elevated plains, and mountains. And it is this series of external conditions and adaptations which has caused that system of analogies between various families of animals which has of late attracted attention. But the immediate cause of the development of each line through its various general grades of being is to be sought in an internal impulse...
Page 20 - It reveals it all — every shade, Every phase. Every line. Every item. It teaches every doctrine man needs to know- Every duty he is required to perform. Of course, this remark excepts every doctrine and duty connected with the fall. And if man will but fulfil all the precepts, and obey all the requirements of his original nature — of Phrenology — the fall, and all its effects, will pass him by. He will need no Savior, for he will com20 THE FOUNDATION OF MAN'S MOEAL NATURE.