Always he had shielded Finnegan frompunishment to the extent that naval etiquette would permit.
A failure in this will bring you prompt punishment; and resentment of this punishment on your part will bring--death.
Quinn, political branch of Scotland Yard, that I am not to be extradited or sent to any country where I am liable to punishment for political offenses, is made on behalf of His Majesty's Government.
Like produces like, and if bad men were writing the Bible they never would have pronounced condemnation and punishment against wrong-doing.
She sent the blubbering, caned boys to their seats, knowing that they too jeered at her and her authority, holding her weakness responsible for what punishment had overtaken them.
Robberies, murders, rapes, are the sports of men set at liberty from punishmentand censure.
If, therefore, anything be imprinted on the minds of all men as a law, all men must have a certain and unavoidable knowledge that certain and unavoidable punishment will attend the breach of it.
But no man escapes the punishment of their censure and dislike, who offends against the fashion and opinion of the company he keeps, and would recommend himself to.
Punishment o'ertakes the transgression, In time; Fate compels a full confession, In time.
Punishment for her sins seemed to follow on her footsteps.
Looking at the humble suppliant there, she felt that punishment had already been meted out to her in fullest measure.
Dumont's eulogy seems to be fully deserved, when we contrast Bentham's theory of punishment with the theories (if they deserve the name) of contemporary legislators.
Bentham considers the properties which fit a punishment to fulfil these conditions.
On the other hand, allpunishment is an evil, because punishment means pain, and it is therefore only to be inflicted when it excludes greater pain.
Thus the 'proportion' between punishment and crimes of a given class can be secured.
We simply have to apply an analysis to determine the cases in which punishment does more harm than good.
The legislator who looks solely at the moral quality implied is wrong; and, if guided solely by his sympathies, has no measure for the amount of punishmentto be inflicted.
Here Bentham lays down the rule that punishment should rise with the strength of the temptation, a theory which leads to some curious casuistical problems.
Reward and punishment 'presuppose the notions of right and wrong' and cannot be the source of those notions.
He adds, however, that the scheme of punishment was 'severe to the highest degree, and destitute of every sort of principle or system.
Postpone Calvi's execution, and you shall know all; but you must give me your word that he shall be sent safe back to the hulks and his punishment commuted.
Do not be jealous of Him, dear heart; I shall speak to Him of you, beseeching Him for your happiness as the price of my death, and my punishment in the next world.
As an exception criminals of the higher ranks are allowed to sojourn there, since, being already disgraced by a sentence in open court, their punishment would be too severe if they served their term of imprisonment at Melun or at Poissy.
That punishment for crime is necessary, and therefore a public duty, is admitted, and every community professes to impose it.
But there is the objection that the punishmentwould generally be out of proportion to the crime, if it were a punishment at all; and if it were not a punishment, we would be offering a greater premium on vice than we now are.
The public is not satisfied with the present punishment of certain offenders--indicated with sufficient accuracy by the tough old Langheimer and the English window-breaker--and is restive under the pecuniary burden they impose.
It was erected for those who could have been otherwise dealt with, and for those who deserved no punishment at all.
There is one remedy, so far as the infliction of real punishment is a remedy, although those who administer justice as above described will hold up their hands in horror at the mention of it.
But what of the criminals whom punishment as now administered does not punish--who actually commit crimes for the purpose of receiving it?
In this mock court, I was unanimously chosen as prosecuting attorney, and, as the court was established expressly to convict, I had no difficulty in carrying the jury and securing the punishment of the prisoner.
In the autumn of 1868, the associated managers came to the conclusion that the punishment of Bennett for two years was sufficient, and they consented to restore their advertisements to the Herald.
Our enormous expenses for the trial and punishment of criminals, as well as for the support of the poor, are mainly caused by this traffic.
He was much excited, and said with great earnestness that this spirit ought to be met, and if possible checked; that slavery was a great and crying injustice, an enormous national crime, and we could not expect to escape punishment for it.
Some of my readers may consider the punishment a severe one, and it must be admitted that it was attended with no small share of discomfort.
He averted his head in horror from the sight, and, innocent as he was of fault, he felt depressed to think that his words had resulted in bringing this punishment upon them.
The master possibly asks permission to punish a refractory inmate; punishment is now very sparingly given in the house.
But he is equally reputed swift of punishment upon those who would take shelter behind more shallow pretence, or attempt downright deceit.
As the culprit on whom they meant to execute this punishment was Thomas Paine, they were not interrupted by any power civil or military.
How just, how suitable to our crime is the punishmentwith which Providence threatens us?
In relating to John Randolph of Roanoke Paine's exposure of Silas Deane, Morris regards it as the prevention of a fraud, but nevertheless thinks Paine deserved punishment for his "impudence"!
In all that my son has written on the subject of capitalpunishment and for writing and publishing which he is now on trial--in all that he has written, he has merely proclaimed the sentiments with which, from his infancy, I have inspired him.
It might be the form of punishmentin vogue for the chastisement of the members of the First Reader.
Perhaps some may say, we are not saved from all punishment of sin by the death of Christ; and if so, so not from all danger of damnation by the intercession of Christ.
They shall endure eternalpunishment in the nature of punishment.
Yet the doctors of our day are so far from taking of warning by the punishment of others, that they do most desperately rush into the same transgression, viz.
Had he lived to witness the punishment inflicted on these murderers by William III, he would have owned with gratitude the services rendered to the nation by that warlike king and his brave parliament.
The conclusion then is, though the rebukes of God for sin by death, and punishment after, be the rebukes of eternal vengeance, yet the eternity of that punishment is for want of merit.
For the reversing of this punishment it is that we should pray, if perhaps God will remit it, when we are taught to say, 'Our Father, forgive us our trespasses.
The punishment of the soul in hell must needs, to be sure, as to degree, differ from the punishment of the body there.
We are saved from all punishment in hell fire by the death of Christ.
I believe the theory was that the sight of his punishment did them good.
After the riots at Bristol in 1831, consequent on the rejection of the Reform Bill, he strenuously demanded stern punishment for the rioters.
In spite of the paucity of the visitors executed, the example operated as a considerable impediment to conversation; and the intensity of the punishment was found to be a full compensation for its rarity.
The punishment of the sin in its inevitable consequences, will go on in the very fidelity of God.
And I know no more convincing putting of the matter than this brief but comprehensive statement of Fairbairn: "If there is any truth in the Fatherhood, would not annihilation be even more a punishment of God than of man?
Some gleams of remorse began to flit about that thick skull and self-deceiving heart, for punishment suggests remorse to sordid natures.
Those who have the disposal of you are beginning to see that all punishment (except hanging) is for the welfare of the culprit, and must never be allowed to injure him.
I therefore remove the punishment from all the others entirely hereafter, deeming that the loss of this morning's recess is punishmentenough for boys who can be so manly in their acknowledgments.
He made up his mind to face the punishment as best he could, fleeing only as a last resort if the beating should be unendurable.
I rely on your zeal for bringing the guilty topunishment and for having them punished without favour to anyone, with all the severity which their crimes demand.
Execution by fire was a punishment that was universal in the days of the Spanish Inquisition.
Their punishmentdid not descend on them at once, but Peter planned a dark vengeance in his mind.
They demanded thepunishment of the offenders, and then took the field most valiantly.
Lieutenant von Katte, who fled with him, was executed before the fortress, and the Prince was compelled to witness the punishment of the companion with whom he had practised music and other forbidden occupations.
If you desire better service at my hands, let me go free into the world once more to roam about uncensured; and if I bring you not twenty adulterers for every year I am out, mete me what punishment you list.
Prithee, tell what evil have we here which thou hadst not at thine home, save thepunishment alone?
In his last year, when he saw escape from his prison so near, another year of punishment was imposed upon him by a rule being passed that they were to remain in the highest class for two years.
But a punishment was soon to follow on this, and his ego was to be broken.
Such punishment is pure revenge, and in such cases is itself a new wrong.
He was too old to be beaten; besides, this form ofpunishment was gradually being disused.
The corporal punishment had sickened and humbled him; he was angry with God, his parents, and especially his brothers, who had not spoken up for him, though they knew the real state of the case.
Had not Bob just played a joke on them he would not have doubted their sincerity, so that in one sense his peril was a punishment for his own misdoing.
The latter may be dismissed with the remark that, having been caught in the commission of his crime, he received full and merited punishment therefor.
They had had enough of adventure, and were willing to face any punishment awaiting them, if they could only see Ashton again.
It will be remembered that each father concerned declared that, upon their return home, the boys should receive severe punishment for their flagrant offenses.
The captain can usually inflict all thepunishment necessary, and the colonel should always.
