 | John McDowell - 1825 - 560 pàgines
...denominated man-stealing. This I 'y the Mosaic law was punished with death. As Wi' read, Ex. xxi. 16; " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." We may observe again while on the subject of theft, that, as it is a breach of this commandment to... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 pàgines
...woman, or child, from their own country, and sending them into another, was capital by the Jewish law. " He that stealeth a man, " and selleth him, or if he...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death V So likewise in the civil law, the offence of spiriting away and stealing men and children, which... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 pàgines
...woman, or child, from their own country, and sending them into another, was capital by the Jewish law. " He that stealeth a man, " and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to deathV So likewise in the civil law, the offence of spiriting away and stealing men and children, which... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pàgines
...may die. ].")«[ And he that smite th his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 5f And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. r£r«*«L *7 IT And 'he that *curseth his father, or his mother, ;.!,,H. xi. i. shall surely be put... | |
 | Enoch Lewis - 1828 - 390 pàgines
...history, is recollected. £33 deserves the name of slavery, could have been found among that people. " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Ex. xxi. 16. Stealing has ever been a common mode of bringing persons into slavery. A large part of... | |
 | Benjamin Godwin - 1830 - 254 pàgines
...planters have for slavery.—But are they willing to abide by the regulations of the Mosaic institutes ? " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death *." The sabbath breaker listened to death : if this law were put in force, what wouWbe come of our... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1831 - 296 pàgines
...of which they could make a profit. To buy or to sell a man is expressly contrary to God's command, ' He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death,' Exod. xxi. 16; and yet we know they traded in slaves." " Tyre seems to have been superior to any other... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 pàgines
...Testament, instead of sanctioning, denounces West India slavery, and dooms its abettors to death. " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death," Exod. xxi. 16. But West India slaves have been stolen, and the thieves have sold them, which thieves,... | |
 | 1831 - 930 pàgines
...die. 15 1i And he that smitcth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 1i And lie t not spoiled ; and dealest treacherously, H Ami he that curscth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 18 11 And if men strive... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - 1831 - 592 pàgines
...the Legislature of Great Britain did not imitate the Jewish law, by which it was laid down, that " he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." By what principle, he would ask, of right — he would not put it even upon the principle of humanity... | |
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And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 
