 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...from our ftatute-book are not fully apprized of), that thefe laws are ftldom exerted to their utmoft rigour: and indeed, if they were, it would be very difficult to excufe them. For they are rather to be accounted for from their hiftory, and the urgency of the times... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...from our ftatute book are not fully apprized of), that thefe laws are feldom exerted to their utmoft rigour : and indeed, if they were, it would be very difficult to excufe them. For they are rather to be accounted for from their hiftory, and the urgency of the times... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1819 - 864 pages
...utmost rigour; and, indeed if they were, it would be impossible to excuse them, for they are ratherto,be accounted for from their history, and the urgency...the times which produced them, than to be approved, on a cool review, as a standing system of law. The restless machinations of the Jesuits, during the... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 622 pages
...statute book, are not fully apprized of,) that these laws are seldom exerted to their utmost figour ; and, indeed, if they were, it would be very difficult to excuse them. The restless machinations of the Jesuits during the reign of Elizabeth, — the turbulence and uneasiness... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...pofiibly be done in cold blood. But in anfwer to thin, thefe laws are feldom exerted to their utmoft rigour : and indeed, if they were, it would be very difficult to excufe them. For they are rather to be accounted for from the urgency of the times which produced them,... | |
 | John Adolphus - Commonwealth of Nations - 1818 - 560 pages
...our ftatute books, are not " fully apprized of,) that thefe laws are feldom exerted to their " utmoft rigour : and indeed, if they were, it would be very " difficult to excufe them ; for they arc rather to be accounted " for from their hiftory, and the urgency of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1819 - 870 pages
...utmost rigour ; and, indeed if they were, it would be impossible to excuse them, for they are ratherto be accounted for from their history, and the urgency...the times which produced them, than to be approved, on a cool review, as a standing system of law. The restless machinations of the Jesuits, during the... | |
 | 1823 - 944 pages
...in cold blood. But in answer to this it may be observed, that these laws are seldom exerted to their utmost rigour; and, indeed, if they were, it would...the times which produced them, than to be approved terpose, tute-book oaths and disabilities which time, and the progress of liberal opinions, had, in... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 782 pages
...Mr. Justice Blackstone has no better reply to make, than that these laws are seldom exerted to their utmost rigour ; and, indeed, if they were, it would be very difficult to excuse them. The meanest apologist of the worst enormities of a Roman emperor could not have shadowed out a defence... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...Mr. Justice Blackstone has no better reply to make, than that these laws are seldom exerted to their utmost rigour ; and, indeed, if they were, it would be very difficult to excuse them.1 The meanest apologist of the worst enormities of a Roman emperor could not have shadowed out... | |
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... rigorous, though not professedly of the sanguinary kind, that they do all the hurt that can possibly be done in cold blood. But in answer to this it may be observed, (what foreigners who only judge from our statute book are not fully apprized of)... 
