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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...hebanes, who having accused and indited their Captaines, as of a capitall crime, forsomuch as they had continued their charge beyond the time prescr... ...h fire and sword pursue and hate the same, and more justly than any other crime. I see all men generally busied (and that verie improperly) to punis... ... condemne and send malefactors to be executed in the same place where the crime was committed: to which whilest they are going, leade them along the... ...e, when it is tender, newer, and youngest. Secondly, the deformity of the crime consisteth not in the difference betweene crownes and pins; it depen... ...first stood a good while upon this choice; whether it was best, by way of prevention, to go and meet with him in Italie, or to stay his comming into ... ...h so mutuall, quiet, and agreeing society in one selfe same mansion, both crime and judge? A man whose Paillardize and luxurie doth uncessantly sway... ...s, that so it may aire and drie. But the caution they use in gnawing, and prevention they employ in paring their graines of wheat, is beyond all imag... ...tention: if the worst come to passe, before poverty assaile you, seeke by prevention to cut of your charges, and by husbanding your expences keepe a... ...of the age I am in, and in that reputation of wisedome, as now I stand in prevention to yeeld unto so base an abject countenances. What would the wor...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...ir advice: “Ex senatus consultis plebisquescitis scelera exercentur.” [“Crimes are committed by the decrees of the Senate and the popular assembly.... ...e commissioner of the divine justice for the punishment of so detestable a crime, and committed them into the hands of the governor of the province, w... ...n; to which may be added, that they look upon the ministers of such horrid crimes as upon men who reproach them with them, and think by their deaths t... ...hat we have placed in the franchise of silence, from which to take it is a crime even to accuse and judge it; neither dare we repre- hend it but by pe... ...h- out being jealous of one another; but ’tis a capital and irre- missible crime to couple with a person of meaner conditions than themselves; and the... ...o con- sult my pulse or my urine, thereby to put myself upon some annoying prevention; I shall soon enough feel the pain, with- out making it more and...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

... question the expedi ency of advocating the revival of whipping for those crimes. It is a natural and generous impulse to be indignant at the perpetr... ... we glide into a review of the most cel ebrated and horrible of the great crimes that have been com mitted within the last fifteen or twenty years. ... ...h, nonentities, and think to 144 Reprinted Pieces keep away the Wolves of Crime and Filth, by our election eering ducking to little vestrymen and ou... ... is very gloomy too, at such a time, and is probably the scene of far more crime and greater wickedness; but this river looks so broad and vast, so mu... ...where, and so may be anywhere, that they have gradually become a police of prevention, keeping the river almost clear of any great crimes, even while ... ...become a police of prevention, keeping the river almost clear of any great crimes, even while the increased vigilance on shore has made it much harder... ...by his son. We looked over the charge books, admirably kept, and found the prevention so good that there were not five hundred entries (including drun...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...enomenology is deceiving: the acts look the same (cessation of life functions, the prevention of a future). But murder is the intentional terminati... ...untable philosophical problems. No one disputes the now common view that the main crime committed in aborting a pregnancy – is a crime against pot... ...to construct the ideal community. This, of course, is its Achilles' heel. Consider crime. Anarchists of all stripes agree that people have the righ... ...rty represents the disproportionate accumulation of wealth by certain individuals. Crime is merely the natural reaction to these glaring injustices... ...Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in front' in terms of damage and number of crimes ...". Lewis averred that " ... (t)here is nothing else g... ... country over the last several years that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and terrorist actions". MSNBC notes that "(t)he Animal L... ... prevented from using the same levels of excitation. Activation and inhibition, or prevention are simultaneous. The Model of Internal Compatibilit...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

... hating each other with a bitter hatred, accusing each other often of such crimes as being in the pay of the police, and demanding, of any speaker or ... ...attracts to itself much that lies on the borderland of insanity and common crime.[ The atti- tude of all the better Anarchists is that expressed by L.... ... which all humane people desire. Let us begin with the question of private crime.[On this subject there is an excellent discussion in the before-menti... ...dden by law. We may put the chief of these under three heads: 1. Theft. 2. Crimes of violence. 3. The creation of organizations intended to subvert th... ... theft on their part and a new necessity for some form of criminal law. 2. Crimes of Violence.—Cruelty to children, crimes of jeal- ousy, rape, and so... ...d so forth, are almost certain to occur in any society to some extent. The prevention of such acts is essen- tial to the existence of freedom for the ... ...ons may be taken to be two: First, the avoidance of wars, and, second, the prevention of the oppression of weak nations by strong ones. These two obje... ...nt are to be reduced to the bare minimum com- patible with justice and the prevention of private violence. In such a world the present harmful outlets...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

...ny hard hearts melted into tears; many a peni- tent confession was made of crimes long concealed. It would wound the soul of any Christian to have hea... ...r as they can. And that the physicians who shall be appointed for cure and prevention of the infection do call before them the said searchers who are,... ...uses shut up; and as the people shut up or imprisoned so were guilty of no crime, only shut up because miserable, it was really the more intoler- able... ...rs of that kind; but I must say I believe nothing of its being so common a crime as some have since been pleased to say, nor did it seem to be so rati...

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