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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England
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Historical SummaryThe punishments for crime were, at this time, more severe in England than in Russia. This attracted the attention of the emperor of Russia when he visited England in 1814. He is said to have explained it by the greater personal freedom of Englishmen. As men were more free to do what they would, they must be all the more severely punished when they did wrong.
Sir W. J. H. Joliffe, lieutenant in the 15th Hussars, Life and Correspondence of Lord Sidmouth, Vol. III, p. 120. World History II.
EARLY REFORMS
410. Observations of the Russian Emperor (1814)
In England, where every man enjoys so much freedom of action, the execution of the laws must necessarily be severe, in consequence of the difficulty of imposing adequate restraints on the early transgression of them. As you cannot, therefore, interpose obstacles to the commission of crime, the only remaining check is to punish it severely when committed. In Russia we can interfere to prevent the commission; severe punishments, therefore, are not so essential.
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Chicago: "Early Reforms," Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947) (Boston: Ginn, 1935, 1922), 669. Original Sources, accessed November 9, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DLTXE3XM8HH7LSA.
MLA: . "Early Reforms." Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, edited by Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947), Boston, Ginn, 1935, 1922, page 669. Original Sources. 9 Nov. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DLTXE3XM8HH7LSA.
Harvard: , 'Early Reforms' in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England. cited in 1922, Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. , Ginn, 1935, Boston, pp.669. Original Sources, retrieved 9 November 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DLTXE3XM8HH7LSA.
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