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5 - Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2012

Lincoln B. Faller
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As they could not spend their whole Time in Acts of Devotion, I thought they could not employ some intervals better, than in perfecting the Confessions which they had promis'd, which was a Satisfaction they ow'd their Country.

William Talbot, then bishop of Oxford, Truth of the Case (1708), p. 36

That Man who should deprive another of his life … has … thereby shew'd his Malice and Enmity to the whole human Race.

Trial of Charles Drew (1740), pp. 34–35

Murder is an unnatural sin: A man is a member of the Commonwealth, and so the murderer kills part of himself.

Heaven's Cry against Murder (1657), p. 15

But let us suppose, for once, that Murther reach'd no further than the Man. … we should find it to be criminal enough for all considering Men to stand aghast at; because of that Injury which it offers to Humane Society, which is the Band and Cement of the World … : it doth … by its noxiousness beget a dissidency in Men towards each other. … what is it, but to bring in that State of War, which some, though fondly, have imagin'd to be the state of Nature?

Gabriel Towerson, An Exposition of the Catechism of the Church of England. Part II (1681), p. 330

He reads by his example, a lecture of consolation.

R[obert Boreman], Mirrour of Mercy (1655), p. 30

And yet we can but pity their untimely transmigrations from this lower World … considering they are our Fellow-Creatures.

Execution of 11 Prisoners (1679)
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The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
 , pp. 91 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1987

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