 DUELLING, as a punishment, is absurd ; because it is an equal chance, whether the punishment fall upon the offender, or the person offended. Nor is it much better as a reparation : it being difficult to explain in what the satisfaction consists, or how...  Gleason's Monthly Companion - Page 901874Full view - About this book
 | William Paley, Richard Whately - Ethics - 1859 - 264 pages
...punishment, is absurd ; because it is an equal chance, whether the punishment fall upon the offender, or the person offended. Nor is it much better as a...the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo the injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained. The truth is, it is not considered... | |
 | Ipswich sch - 1852 - 786 pages
...punishment, is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment fall upon the offender or the person offended. Nor is it much better as a...the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo an injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained. Moreover, murder is forbidden,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...punishment, is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment falls upon the offender or the person offended ; nor is it much better as...being difficult to explain in what the satisfaction cousists, or how it tends to undo injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained.... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Dueling - 1868 - 360 pages
...a punishment, is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment falls on the offender or the person offended ; nor is it much better as...the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo the injury or afford a compensa* Franklin here alludes to the celebrated duellist, St. Foix, who returned... | |
 | 1869 - 746 pages
...said he. "it is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment falls on the offender or the person offended ; nor is it much better as...the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo the injury or afford a compensation for the injury sustained. The truth is, it is not considered as... | |
 | James Payn - 1872 - 314 pages
...punishment,' he says, ' is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment falls on the offender or the person offended ; nor is it much better as...difficult to explain in what the satisfaction consists ' " " Difficult to explain, perhaps," broke in the other, " but not to feel — that is, in the case... | |
 | John Tillotson - Quotations - 1880 - 392 pages
...punishment, is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment fall upon the offender or the person offended. Nor is it much better as a...the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo the injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained. The truth is, it is not considered... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 776 pages
...punishment, is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment falls upon the offender, the purification of the heart from self : it strengthens...and nobler aim to every action of life, and makes an injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained.— DULLNESS. A, lull шап... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...punishment, is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment falls upon the offender, i; 605 VIOLENCE. take some other kind of wickedness...of their ancestors. — Macaulay. VICISSITUDES.— an injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained. — Paley. DULLNESS. -A dull... | |
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