 | 1831 - 738 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion of disgrace should...bad actions. But it is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy; that ninety-nine out of every hundred should... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion of disgrace should...bad actions. But it is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy ; that ninety-nine out of every hundred should... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion of disgrace should...bad actions. But it is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy; thai ninety-nine out of every hundred should... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...tribunal of public «pinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion ni disgrace should constantly attend on certain bad actions. But it is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy,that ninety-nine out of every hundred should... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion of disgrace should...bad actions. But it is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy ; that ninety-nine out of every hundred should... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion of disgrace should constantly attend on certain bad actions. But it-is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy; that ninety-nine... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion of disgrace should...bad actions. But it is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy; that ninety-nine out of every hundred should... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion of disgrace should...bad actions. But it is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy; that ninety-nine out of every hundred should... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. the sieges, tha negotiations, the seditions, the ministerial changes. But with these he would int il is not good that the offenders merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy; that ninety-nine... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 pages
...military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of public opinion, it is infinitely more irrational. It is good that a certain portion of disgrace should...that the offenders should merely have to stand the risks of a lottery of infamy, that ninety-nine out of every hundred should escape, and that the hundredth,... | |
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... mode of punishment. It is the resource of judges too indolent and hasty to investigate facts and to discriminate nicely between shades of guilt. It is an irrational practice, even when adopted by military tribunals. When adopted by the tribunal of... 
