...needy and hardened offender overlooks thernultitude that Suffer : he boldly engages in fome defperate attempt to relieve his wants or Supply his vices ; and if, unexpectedly, the hand of juftice overtakes him, he deems himfelf peculiarly unfortunate in falling at lalt a facrifice to thofe...

...chances of escaping, the needy and hardened offender overlooks the multitude that suffer ; he boldly engages in some desperate attempt to relieve his wants,...to those laws which long impunity has taught him to contemn. ' Such is the picture drawn of our law, by two of its greatest ornaments and ablest interpreters....

...terrible exhibition, than as the just consequence of a particular violation of the laws of society t. some desperate attempt, to relieve his wants, or supply...falling at last a sacrifice to those laws, which long impnnity has taught him to contemn. Vol. iv. P. 19. * Juvenal. t Blackstone B. iv, c. 51. Vol. iv,...

...overlooks the multitude that suffer ; he boldly engages in some des" perate attempt, to relieve bis wants or supply his vices , and, if unexpectedly "...those laws, which long impunity has taught '-' him to contemn.'' And in page 371 of the same volume, he says, " that if the plan of penitentiary-houses be...

...chances of escaping, the needy and hardened offender overlooks the multitude that suffer : he boldly engages in some desperate attempt, to relieve his...wants, or supply his vices ; and, if unexpectedly the baud of justice overtakes him, he deems himself peculiarly unfortunate, in felling at last a sacrifice...

...X at the end of (his tract. sion, will respite one half of the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy. Among so many chances of escaping, the...those laws, which long impunity has taught him to contemn." Dr. Johnson, in his admirable Essay on Capital Punishments, says, " He who knows not how...

...the ' needy and hardened offender' (he remarks) ' overlooks the ' multitude that suffer : he boldly engages in some desperate ' attempt to relieve his wants or supply his vices ; and, if unex' pectedly the hand of justice overtakes him, he deems himself ' peculiarly unfortunate, in falling...

...chances of escaping, the needy and hardened offender overlooks the multitude that suffer ; he boldly engages in some desperate attempt, to relieve his...those laws, which long impunity has taught him to contemn. (9) b See Ruffhead's index to the statutes (tit. Felony), and the acts which hare since been...

...chances of escaping, the needy and hardened offender overlooks the multitude that suffer ; he boldly engages in some desperate attempt, to relieve his...those laws, which long impunity has taught him to contemn. (9) b Sec Kuffhead's index to the statutes (tit. Felony), and the acts which have since been...

...chances of escaping, the needy and hardened offender overlooks the multitude that suffer; he boldly engages in some desperate attempt to relieve his wants...peculiarly unfortunate in falling at last a sacrifice Co those laws which long impunity had taught him to contemn."* The acute and indignant author of a...