The Newgate Calendar Improved, Vol. 1: Being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters Who Have Been Convicted of Offences Against the Laws of England, During the Seventh Century, and Continued to the Present Time, Chronologically Arranged
The Newgate Calendar Improved, Vol. 1: Being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters Who Have Been Convicted of Offences Against the Laws of England, During the Seventh Century, and Continued to the Present Time, Chronologically Arranged
Excerpt from The Newgate Calendar Improved, Vol. 1: Being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters Who Have Been Convicted of Offences Against the Laws of England, During the Seventh Century, and Continued to the Present Time, Chronologically Arranged Phe universal consent of every stage of society has proved the necessity of laws to restrain by punishment the liceu tious and cruel dispositions of bad men; indeed, but for these regulations, however severe and partial they may have sometimes been, society would have ...
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Excerpt from The Newgate Calendar Improved, Vol. 1: Being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters Who Have Been Convicted of Offences Against the Laws of England, During the Seventh Century, and Continued to the Present Time, Chronologically Arranged Phe universal consent of every stage of society has proved the necessity of laws to restrain by punishment the liceu tious and cruel dispositions of bad men; indeed, but for these regulations, however severe and partial they may have sometimes been, society would have missed its first great object, namely, the better security of men's persons and property. The several systems of criminal jurisprudence which have at various periods been adopted by different nations, though dissimilar in their specific regulations, all agree in one fundamental principle, that the proper end of human punishment is the prevention of crime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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