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" The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution without asking himself: 'Who knows whether this man is not less culpable than me?' On the days when the prisons of this city are emptied into the... "
The Penscellwood papers: essays by the author of 'Dr. Hookwell'. - Page 68
by Robert Armitage - 1846
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Select British Classics, Volume 7

English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...and calmly studious of public happiness. The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave, relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution...when the prisons of this city are emptied into the grave,let every spectator of the dreadful procession put the same question to his own heart. Few among...
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Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, Volume 1

Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...punishments." BLACKSTONE. Com. book IV. cb. 1. e " The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution...into the grave, let every spectator of the dreadful are written in human blood :r and those legislators and statesmen who slumber over these enormities,...
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The Refuge

William Giles - Christian life - 1804 - 280 pages
...Very different, however, were the conclusions of the learned and excellent Boerhaave, who relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution...Who knows whether this man is not less culpable than I ?' But the concession I have made does not in the least militate against the doctrine of universal...
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 3

1806 - 340 pages
...and calmly studious of publick happiness. The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution...the same question to his own heart. Few among those that crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps with triumph, on...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 424 pages
...pious Boerhaave relates, that he never sa%va criminal dragged to execution without asking hinvelf, " Who knows " whether this man is not less culpable...dreadful procession put the same question to his own ieart. Few among those who crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps...
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The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death

Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...t The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged <o execution without asking himself, " Who knows whether...the same question to his own heart. Few among those that croud in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps with triumph, on...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Volume 2

1810 - 462 pages
...and calmly studious of publick happiness. The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution...the same question to his own heart. Few among those that crow4 in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps with triumph, on...
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The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...and calmly studious of publick happiness. The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaavc relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution...the same question to his own heart. Few among those that crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps with triumph, on...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...and calmly studious of publick happiness. The learned, the judicious, the pious* Boerhacwe relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution...the same question to his own heart. Few among those that crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps with triumph, on...
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Works, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...sincerely and calmly studious of public happiness. The learned, the judicious, the pious Boerhaave relates, that he never saw a criminal dragged to execution...Few among those who crowd in thousands to the legal massacre, and look with carelessness, perhaps with triumph, on the utmost exacerbations of human misery,...
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