 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...terror, than for a monarchy, or a republic, whose spring is honor and virtue. In moderate governments, the love of one's country, shame, and the fear of...blame, are restraining motives, capable of preventing a multitude of crimes. Here the greatest punishment of a bad action is conviction. The civil laws have... | |
 | William Roscoe - Criminal law - 1819 - 342 pages
...Stripes and severity may produce similar expressions of anguish, but it is anguish of the body, not. of the mind ; yet it is from the latter alone, as...says the enlightened author last cited, " the love of ones country, shame, and the fear of blame, are restraining motives capable of preventing a great multitude... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...terror, than for a monarchy or a republic, whose spring is honour and virtue. In moderate governments, the love of one's country, shame, and the fear of...blame, are restraining motives, capable of preventing a multitude of crimes. Here the greatest punishment of a bad action is conviction. The civil laws have... | |
 | Charles Putt - Jurisprudence - 1830 - 496 pages
...than for a monarchy or a republic, whose spring is honour and virtue."* " In moderate governments, the love of one's country, shame and the fear of blame, are restraining motives, capable of preventing a multitude of crimes. Here the greatest punishment of a bad action is conviction. The civil laws have... | |
 | Ethics - 1925 - 476 pages
...face, it must be cut down. No less than Montesquieu does he believe that "in moderate governments, the love of one's country, shame, and the fear of...blame are restraining motives, capable of preventing a multitude of crimes."21 Not the least of his merits is that he was not carried away by a soft humanitarianism... | |
 | Clarence Morris - Law - 1971 - 588 pages
...terror, than for a monarchy or a republic, whose spring is honour and virtue. In moderate governments, the love of one's country, shame, and the fear of blame, are restraining motives, capable ol preventing a multitude of crimes. Here the greatest punishment of a bad action is conviction. The... | |
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In moderate governments, the love of one's country, shame, and the fear of blame are restraining motives, capable of preventing a multitude of crimes. 