 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 pages
...alternative is offered to every man; " either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty :" and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to embrace. Thus, by the statutes for preserving the game, a penalty is denounced against every unqualified person... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...the alternative is offered to every man, ' either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty j* and [that] his conscience will be clear, whichever...— dabis fidem, te observaturum statuta collegii, aut multas tibi contii facienti irrogandas prompte persoluturum, omniaque in arte medica pro viribus... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 660 pages
...the alternative is offered to every man; "either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty;" and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to embrace. Thus, by the statutes for preserving the game, a penalty is denounced against every unqualified person... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...the alternative is offered to every man; "either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty;" and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to embrace, ll Thus, by the statutes for preserving the game, a penalty is denounced against every unqualified... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - 1833 - 404 pages
...these cases the alternative is offered to every man, either to do this or submit to the penalty, and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to take." The author might have been induced to this conclusion, partly from a consideration of that unlimited,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 pages
...the alternative is offered to every man; "either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty:" and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to embrace. Thus, by the statutes for prepurely indifferent to society, in a moral point of view. Is the moral... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1839 - 556 pages
...alternative is offered to every man ; " either " abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty :" and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to embrace. Thus, by the recent statute for preserving the game,2 a penalty is denounced against every person that... | |
 | George Payne - 1845 - 486 pages
...the alternative is offered to every man j either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty ; and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to embrace."* , Human laws may thus make an action expedient, but they cannot make it right. They cannot alter its... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 pages
...alternative is offered to every man ; " either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty:" and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to embrace. Thus, by the statutes for preserving the game, a penalty is denounced against every unqualified person... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1871 - 784 pages
...alternative is offered to every man : ' either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty ; ' and his conscience will be clear, whichever side of the alternative he thinks proper to embrace." See, also, Johnson v. Hudson, 11 East, 180 ; Ex parte Dyster, 2 Rose, Bank. Cas. 349; Gremarc v. Le... | |
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... impolitic, but would also be a very wicked thing; if every such law were a snare for the conscience of the subject. But in these cases the alternative is offered to every man ; " either abstain from this, or submit to such a penalty:" and his conscience... 
